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ACTS OF CONGEESS 



RULES AND REGULATIONS 

PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, IN PURSUANCE 
THERETO, WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE PRESIDENT, 

CONCERNING 

COMMERCIAL INTERCOUESE 

WITH AND. IN STATES AND fARTS OF STATES DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, 

JAPTURED, ABANDONED, AND CONFISCABLE PROPERTY, 
THE CARE OF FREEDMEN, 



PUECHASE OF PRODUCTS OF INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS 
ON GOVERNMENT ACCOUNT. 



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WASHINGTON: 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 

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^ TABLE OF CONTENTS, 



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Act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage, March 2, 1799 1 

Act concerniDg commercial intercourse, July 13, 1861 1 

Act supplementary to commercial intercourse act, May 20, 1862, 4 

Act to suppress insurrections, to prevent treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate 

the property of rebels, &c., July ]7, 1862 5 

Act concerning abandoned and captured property, March 12, 1863 7 

Act in addition to acts concerning commercial intercourse, captured and abandoned 

property, &c., July 2, 1864 9 

Proclamation of the President, August 16, 1861 13 

Proclamation of the President, July 1, 1862 14 

Proclamation of the President, March 31, 1863 14 

Proclamation of the President, December 8, 1863 15 

Proclamation of the President, June 1 3, 1865 17 

Proclamation of the President, June 24, 1865 19 

Eegulations concerning commercial intercourse, August 28, 1862 20 

Order of Secretary of War 23 

Order of Secretary of the Navy 23 

Regulations concerning commercial intercourse, March 31, 1863 24 

Order of Secretary of War 29 

Order of Secretary of the Navy 30 

President's approval and license 32 

Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, July 3, 1863 33 

Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, September 11, 1863 36 

Trade regulations, September 11, 1863 39 

Regulations concerning abandoned and captured property, September II, 1863 54 

President's approval and license, July 30, 1 864 62 

General regulations, July 29, 1864 62 

Eegulations concerning commercial intercourse 63 

Amended regulation LV 79 

Regulations concerning abandoned, captured, and confiscable personal property 80 

Eegulations concerning abandoned lands, houses, and tenements 86 

Regulations concerning freedmen 89 

Order of Secretary of War 92 

Order of Secretary of the Navy 92 

Order of Quartermaster General 93 

Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, August 24, J 864 94 

Executive order, April 29, 1865 95 

Eegulations concerning commercial intercourse. May 9, 1865 95 

Circular of Secretary of the Treasury, June 27, 1865 98 

Eegulations for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States, September 24, 1864 . 101 

Executive order 104 

Order of Secretary of War 105 

Order of Secretary of the Navy 1 05 

Amended regulations for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States, May 9, 

1865 J07 



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AN ACT to regTilate tlio collection of duties on imports and tonnage, referred to in 5tli section 
of tlie act approved May 20, 1802, and 4th section of the act approved March J 2, 1803, 
appended hereto. 

Sec. 91. And he it further enacted, That all fines, penalties, and forfeitures 
recovered by virtue of this act (and not otherwise appropriated] shall, after de- 
ducting all proper costs and charges, be disposed of as follows : one moiety shall 
be for the use of the United States, and be paid into the treasury thereof by 
the collector receiving the same ; the other moiety shall be divided between and 
paid in equal proportions to the collector and naval officer of the district and 
surveyor of the port wherein the same shall have been incurred, or to such of 
the said officers as thei-e may be in the said district ; and in districts where only 
one of the aforesaid officers shall have been established, the said moiety shall be 
given to such officer : 

Provided, nevertheless, That in all cases where such penalties, fines, and for- 
feitures shall be recovered in pursuance of information given to such collector 
by any person other than the naval officer or surveyor of the district, the one- 
half of such moiety shall be given to such informer, and the remainder thereof 
shall be disposed of between the collector, naval officer, and surveyor or sur- 
veyors, in manner aforesaid : 

Provided, also. That where any fines, forfeitures, and penalties incurred by 
virtue of this act, are recovered in consequence of any information given by any 
officer of a revenue cutter, they shall, after deducting all proper costs and charges, 
be disposed of as follows : one-fourth part shall be for the use of the United 
States, and paid into the treasury thereof in manner as before directed ; one- 
fourth part for the officers of the customs, to be distributed as hereinbefore set 
forth ; and the remainder thereof to the officers of such cutter, to be divided 
among them agreealdy to their pay : 

And 2>rovided, Uhcwise, That whenever a seizure, condemnation, and sale of 
goods, wares, or merchandise shall take place within the United States, and the 
value thereof shall be less than two hundred and fifty dollars, that part of the 
forfeiture which accrues to the United States, or so mucli thereof as may be 
necessary, shall be applied to the payment of the cost of prosecution. 

And he it further i)rovided. That if any officer or other person entitled to a 
part or share of any of the fines, penalties, or forfeitures incurred in virtue of 
this act, shall be necessary as a witness on the trial for such fine, penalty, or 
forfeiture, such officer or other person may be a witness upon the said trial ; but 
in such case he shall not receive, nor be entitled to any part or share of the said 
fine, penalty, or forfeiture, and the part or share to which he otherwise would 
have been entitled shall revert to the United States. 

Approved March 2, 1799. 



AN ACT further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted hy the Senate and, Hmise of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That Avhenever it shall, in the judgment 
of the President, by reason of unlawful combinations of persons in opposition to 
the laws of the United States, become impracticable to execute the revenue laws 



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an<\ collect the duties on imports by ordinary means, in tlic ordinary way, at 
any port of entry in any collection district, he is authorized to cause such duties 
to be collected at any port of delivery in said district until such obstruction 
shall cease ; and in such case the surveyors at said ports of delivery shall be 
clothed with all the powers and be subject to all the obligations of collectors at 
ports of entry ; and the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the 
President, shall appoint such number of weighers, gangers, measurers, inspect- 
ors, appraisers, and clerks, as may be necessary, in his judgment, for the faith- 
ful execntion of the revenue laws at said ports of delivery, and shall fix and 
establish the limits within which such ports of delivery are constituted ports of 
entry, as aforesaid ; and all the provisions of law regulating the issue of marine 
papers, the coasting trade, the warehousing of imports, and collection of duties, 
shall apply to the ports of entry so constituted in the same manner as they do to 
ports of entry established by the laws now in force. 

Sec. 2. And be it fiirllier enacted. That if, from the cause mentioned in the 
foregoing section, in the judgment of the President, the revenue from duties on 
imports cannot be effectually collected at any port of entry in any collection dis- 
trict, in the ordinary way and by the ordinary means, or by the course provided 
in the foregoing section, then and in that case he may direct that the custom- 
house for the district be established in any secure place Avithin said district, 
either on land or on board any vessel in said district, or at sea near the coast ; 
and in such case the collector shall reside at such place, or on shipboard, as the 
case may be, and there detain all vessels and cargoes arriving within or approach- 
ing said district, until the duties imposed by law on said vessels and their car- 
goes are paid in cash : Provided, That if the owner or consignee of the cargo 
on board any vessel detained as aforesaid, or the master of said vessel, shall de- 
sire to enter a port of entry in any other district of the United States where no 
such obstructions to the execution of the laws exist, the master of such vessel 
may be permitted so to change the destination of the vessel and cargo in his 
manifest, whereupon the collector shall deliver him a written permit to proceed 
to the port so designated : And inovidcd further. That the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall, with the approbation of the President, make proper regulations 
fi»r the enforcement on shipboard of such provisions of the laws regulating the 
assessment and collection of duties as in his judgment may be necessary and 
practicable. 

Skc. 3. And he it further enacted, That it shall be unlawful to take any 
vessel or cargo detained as aforesaid from the custody of the proper oflicers of 
the customs, unless by process of some court of the United States ; and in case 
of any attempt otherwise to take such vessel or cargo by any force, or combina- 
tion, or assemblage of persons too great to be overcome by the officers of the 
customs, it shall and may be lawful for the President, or such person or per- 
sons as he shall have empowered for that purpose, to employ such part of the 
army or navy, or militia of the United States, or such force of citizen volunteers 
as may be deemed necessary, for the purpose of preventing the removal of such 
vessel or cargo and protecting the officers of the customs in retaining the cus- 
tody thereof. 

Sec. 4. And le it further enacted, That if, in the judgment of the President, 
from the cause mentioned in the first section of this act, the duties upon imports 
in any collection district cannot be effectually collected by the ordinary means 
and in the ordinary way, or in the mode and manner provided in the foregoing 
section of this act, then, and in that case, the President is hereby empowered to 
close the port or ports of entry in said district, and in such case give notice 
thereof by proclamation ; and thereupon all right of importation, warehousing, 
and other privileges incident to ports of entry, shall cease and be discontinued 
at such port so closed until opened by the order of the President, on the cessation 
of such obstructions ; and if, while said ports are so closed, any ship or vessel 



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from beyond tlie United States, or having on board any articles subject to duties, 
shall enter or attempt to enter any such port, the same, together ^yith its tackle, 
apparel, furniture, and cargo, shall be forfeited to the United States. 

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever the President, in pursu- 
ance of the provisions of the second section of the act entitled "Act to provide 
for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrec- 
tions, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that purpose," 
approved February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, shall have 
called forth the militia to suppress combinations against the laws of the United 
States, and to cause the laws to be duly executed, and the insurgents shall have 
failed to disperse by the time directed by the President, and when said insur- 
gents claim to act under the authority of any State or States, and such claim is 
not disclaimed or repudiated by the persons exercising the functions of govern- 
ment in such State or States, or in the part or parts thereof in which said com- 
bination exists, nor such insurrection suppressed by said State or States, then, 
and in such case, it may and shall be lawful for the President, by proclamation, 
to declare that the inhabitants of such State, or any section or part thereof where 
such insurrection exists, are in a state of insuiTectioii against the United States; 
and thereupon all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citi- 
zens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the United States shall cease and be 
unlawful so long as such condition of hostility shall continue; and all goods and 
chattels, wares and merchandise coming from said State or section into the other 
parts of the United States, and all proceeding to such State or section by land 
or water, shall, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or con- 
veying persons to or from such State or section, be forfeited to the United States : 
Provided, however, That the President may, in his discretion, license and permit 
commercial intercourse with any such part of said State or section, the inhabitants 
of which are so declared in a state of insurrection, in such articles, and for such 
time, and by such persons, as he, in his discretion, may think most conducive to 
the public interest ; and such intercourse, so far as by him licensed, shall be 
conducted and carried on only in pursuance of rules and regulations prescribed 
by the Secretary of the Treasury. And the Secretary of the Treasury may ap- 
point such officers, at places where officers of the customs are not now author- 
ized by law, as may be needed to carry into effect such licenses, rules, and reg- 
ulations ; and officers of the customs and other officers shall receive for services 
under this section, and under said rules and regulations, such fees and compen- 
sation as are now allowed for similar service under other provisions of law. 

Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That from and after fifteen days after the 
issuing of the said proclamation, as provided in the last foregoing section of this 
act, any ship or vessel belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or inhabi- 
tant of said State or part of a State whose inhabitants are so declared in a state 
of insurrection, found at sea, or in any port of the rest of the United States, 
shall be forfeited to the United States. 

Sec. 7. And he it further eyiacted. That in the execution of the provisions of 
this act and of the other laws of the United States providing for the collection 
of duties on imports and tonnage, it may and shall be lawful for the President, 
in addition to the revenue cutters in service, to employ in aid thereof such other 
suitable vessels as may, in his judgment, be required. 

Sec. 8. And he it further enacted, That the forfeitures and penalties incurred 
by virtue of this act may be mitigated or remitted, in pursuance of the author- 
ity vested in the Secretary of the Treasury by the act entitled " An act pro- 
viding for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties, and disabilities ac- 
cruing in certain cases therein mentioned," approved March third, seventeen 
hundred and ninety-seven, or in cases where special circumstances may seem to 
require it, according to regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the 
Treasury. 



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Sec. 9. And he itfurtlicr enacted. That proceedings on seizures for forfeitures 
iinder this act may be pursued in the courts of the United States in any district 
into which the property so seized may be taken and proceedings instituted ; and 
such courts shall have and entertain as full jurisdiction over the same as if the 
seizure was made in that district. 

Approved July 13, 1861. 



AN ACT supplenicntaiy to an act approved on the thirteenth July, eic^htecn hundred and 
sixty-one, entitled "An act to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other 
purposes." 

Be it enacted by the Senate and. House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury, 
in addition to the powers conferred upon him by the act of the thirteenth 
July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and he is hereby authorized to refuse 
a clearance to any vessel or other vehicle laden with goods, wares, or merchan- 
dise, destined for a foreign or^domestic port, whenever he shall have satisfactory 
reason to believe that such goods, wares, or merchandise, or any part thereof, 
whatever may be their ostensible destination, are intended for ports or places in 
possession or under control of insurgents against the United States ; and if any 
vessel or other vehicle for which a clearance or permit shall have been refused 
by the Secretary of the Treasury, or by his order, as aforesaid, shall depart or 
attempt to depart for a foreign or domestic port without being duly cleared or 
permitted, such vessel or other vehicle, with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and 
cargo, shall be forfeited to the United States, 

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever a permit or clearance is 
o-ranted for either a foreign or domestic port, it shall be lawful for the collector 
of the customs granting the same, if he shall deem it necessary, under the cir- 
cumstances of the case, to require a bond to be executed by the master or the 
owner of the vessel in a penalty equal to the value of the cargo, and with sure- 
ties to the satisfaction of such collector, that the said cargo shall be delivered at 
the destination for which it is cleared or permitted, and that no part thereof shall 
be used in affording aid or comfort to any person or parties in insurrection against 
the authority of the United States. 

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, 
and he is hereby, further empowered to prohibit and prevent the transportation 
in any vessel or upon any raih'oad, turnpike, or other road or means of trans- 
portation within the United States, of auy goods, wares, or merchandise of 
whatever character, and whatever may be the ostensible destination of the same, 
in all cases where there shall be satisfactory reasons to believe that such goods, 
wares, or merchandise are intended for any place in the possession or under the 
control of insurgents against the United States, or that there is imminent dan- 
ger that such goods, wares or merchandise will fall into the possession or under 
the control of such insurgents ; and he is further authorized, in all cases where 
he shall deem it expedient so to do, to require reasonable security to be given 
that goods, wares, or merchandise shall not be transported to any place under 
insurrectionary control, and shall not, in any way, be used to give aid or comfort 
to such insurgents ; and he may establish all such general or special regulations 
as may be necessary or proper to carry into effect the purposes of this act ; and 
if any goods, wares, or merchandise shall be transported in violation of this act, 
or of any regulation of the Secretary of the Treasury established in pursuance 
thereof, or if any attempt shall be made so to transport them, all goods, wares, 
or merchandise so transported or attempted to be transported shall be forfeited 
V to the United States. 

Sec'. 4. And be it further enacted, That the proceedings for the penalties 



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and forfeitures accruing under tliis act may be pui'sued, and the same may be 
mitigated or remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury in the modes prescribed 
by the eighth and ninth sections of the act of July thirteenth, eighteen hundred 
and sixty-one, to which this act is supplementary. 

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of all penalties and for- 
feitures incurred under this act, or the act to which this is supplementary, shall 
be distributed in the manner provided by the ninety-first section of the act of 
March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled " An act to regulate 
the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." 

Approved May 20, 1862. 



AN ACT to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate 
the property of rebels, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hotcse of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That every person who shall here- 
after commit the crime of treason against the United States, and shall be 
adjudged guilty thereof, shall suffer death, and all his slaves, if any, shall be 
declared and made free ; or, at the discretion of the court, he shall be imprisoned 
for not less than five years and fined not less than ten thousand dollars, and all 
his slaves, if any, shall be declared and made free ; said fine shall be levied and 
collected on any or all of the property, real and personal, excluding slaves, of 
which the said person so convicted was the owner at the time of committing the 
said crime, any sale or conveyance to the contrary notwithstanding. 

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall hereafter incite, 
set on foot, assist, or engage in any rebellion or insurrection against the author- 
ity of the United States, or the laws thereof, or shall give aid or comfort thereto, 
or shall engage in, or give aid and comfort to any sucli existing rebellion or in- 
sin'rection, and be convicted thereof, such person shall be punished b}' imprison- 
ment for a period not exceeding ten years, or by a fine not exceeding ten thou- 
sand dollars, and by the liberation of all his slaves, if any he have, or by both of 
said punishments, at the discretion of the court. 

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every person guilty of either of the 
offences described in this act shall be forever incapable and disqualified to hold 
any ofiice under the United States. 

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not be construed in any 
way to affect or alter the prosecution, conviction, or punishment of any person 
or persons guilty of treason against the United States before the passage of this 
act, iinless such person is convicted under this act. 

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That, to insin-e the speedy termination of 
the present rebellion, it shall be the duty of the President of the United States 
to cause the seizure of all the estate and property, money, stocks, credits, and 
effects of the persons hereinafter named in this section, and to apply and use 
the same, and the proceeds thereof, for the support of the army of the United 
States ; that is to say : 

First. Of any person hereafter acting as an officer of the army or navy of the 
rebels in arms against the government of the United States. 

Secondly. Of any person hei'eafter acting as president, vice-president, member 
of congress, judge of any court, cabinet officer, foreign minister, commissioner, 
or consul of the so-called Confederate States of America. 

Thirdly. Of any person acting as governor of a State, member of a convention 
or legislature, or judge of any court of any of the so-called Confederate States 
of America. 

Fourthly. Of any person who, having held an office of honor, trust, or profit 



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in the United States, shall hereafter hold an office in the so-called Confederate 
States of America. 

Fifthly. Of any person hereafter holding an office or agency nnder the gov- 
ernment of the so-called Confederate States of America, or nnder any of the 
several States of the said confederacy, or the laws thereof, whether such office 
or agency be national, State, or municipal in its name or character : Proindcd, 
That the persons thirdly, fourtlily and fifthly above described shall have ac- 
cepted their appointment or election since the date of the pretended ordinance 
of secession of the State, or shall have taken an oath of allegiance to, or to 
support the constitution of, the so-called Confederate States. 

Sixthly. Of any person who, owning property in any loyal State or Territory 
of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, shall hei'eafter assist and 
give aid and comfort to such rebellion; and all sales, transfers, or conveyances 
of any such property shall be null and void; and it shall be a sufficient bar to 
any suit brought by such person for the possession or the use of such property, 
or any of it, to allege and prove that he is one of the persons described in this 
section. 

Sec. 6. And he it further enacted, That if any person within any State or 
Territory of the United States, other than those named as aforesaid, after the 
passage of this act, being engaged in armed rebellion against the government of 
the United States, or aiding or abetting such rebellion, shall not, within sixty 
days after public Avarning and proclamation duly given and made by the Presi- 
dent of the United States, cease to aid, countenance and abet such rebellion, and 
return to his allegiance to the United States, all the estate and property, moneys, 
stocks aiid credits of such person shall be liable to seizure as aforesaid, and it 
shall be the duty of the President to seize and use them as aforesaid, or the 
proceeds thereof. And all sales, transfers, or conveyances of any such property 
after the expiration of the said sixty days from the date of such warning and 
proclamation shall be null and void ; and it shall be a sufficient bar to any suit 
brought by sucii person for the possession or the use of such property, or any 
of it, to allege and prove that he is one of the pei'sons described in this section. 

Sec. 7. And he it further enacted, That to secure the condemnation and sale 
of any of such property, after the same shall have been seized, so that it may 
be made available for the purpose aforesaid, proceedings in rem shall be insti- 
tuted in the name of the United States in any district court thereof, or in any 
territorial court, or in the United States district court for the District of Colum- 
bia, AV'ithin which the property above described, or any part thereof, may be 
found, or into which the same, if movable, may first be brought, which proceed- 
ings shall conform as nearly as may be to proceedings in admiralty or revenue 
cases ; and if said property, whether real or personal, shall be found to have 
belonged to a person engaged in rebellion, or who has given aid or comfort 
thereto, the same shall be condemned as enemies' property and become the prop- 
erty of the United States, and may be disposed of as the court shall decree, 
and the proceeds thereof paid into the treasury of the United States for the pur- 
poses aforesaid. 

Skc. S. And he it further enacted. That the several courts aforesaid shall 
have power to make such orders, establish such forms of decree and sale, and 
direct such deeds and conveyances to be executed and delivered by the marshals 
thereof where real estate shall be the subject of sale, as shall fitly and efficiently 
eflfect the purposes of this act, and vest in the purchasers of such property. good 
and valid titles thereto. And the said courts shall have poAver to allow such 
fees and charges of their officers as shall be reasonable and proper in the prem- 
ises. 

Sec. 9. And he it further enacted. That all slaves of persons who shall here- 
after be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States, or 
who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons 



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and taking refuge within tlie lines of the army; and all slaves captured from 
sucli persons or deserted by tliem and coming under the control of tlie govern- 
ment of the United States ; and all slaves of such persons found on [or J being 
within any place occupied by rebel forces and afterwards occupied by the forces 
of the United States, shall be deemed captives of war, and shall be forever free 
of their servitude, and not again held as slaves. 

Sec. 10. And be it furtlier enacted, That no slave escaping into any State, 
Territory, or the District of Columbia, from any other State, shall be delivered 
lip, or in any way impeded or hindered of his liberty, except for crime, or some 
offence against the laws, unless the person claiming said fugitive shall first make 
oath that the person to whom the labor or service of such fugitive is alleged to 
be due is his lawful owner, and has not borne arms against the United States 
in the present rebellion, nor in any way given aid or comfort thereto ; and no 
person engaged in the military or naval service of the United States shall, under 
any pretence whatever, assume to decide on the validity of the claim of any 
person to the service or labor of any other person, or surrender up any such 
person to the claimant, on pain of being dismissed from the service. 

Sec. 11. And he it further enacted, That the President of the United States 
is authorized to employ as many persons of African descent as he may deem 
necessary and proper for the suppression of this rebellion, and for this purpose 
he may organize and use them in such manner as he may judge best for the 
public welfare. 

Sec. 12. And he it further enacted, That the President of the United States 
is hereby authorized to make provision for the transportation, colonization, and 
settlement, in some ti'opical country beyond the limits of the United States, of 
such persons of the African race, made free by the provisions of this act, as may 
be willing to emigrate, having first oljtained the consent of the government of 
said country to their protection and settlement within the same, with all the 
rights and privileges of freemen. 

Sec. 13. And he it further enacted. That the President is hereby authorized, 
at any time hereafter, by proclamation, to extend to persons who may have par- 
ticipatt'd in the existing rebellion in any State or part tliereof, pardon and am- 
nesty, with such exceptions and at such time and ou such conditions as he may 
deem expedient for the public welfare. 

Sec. 14 And he it further enacted. That the courts of the United States shall 
have full power to institute proceedings, make orders and decrees, issue process, 
and do all other things necessary to carry this act into effect. 

Approved July 17, 1862. 



AN ACT to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the preventiou of frauds 
in insurrectionary districts within the United States. 

Tie it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representathes of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of 
the Treasury, from and after the passage of this act, as he shall from time to 
time see fit, to appoint a special agent or agents to r eceive and collect all aban- 
doned or captured property in any State or Territory, or any portion of any 
State or Territory of the United States, designated as in insurrection against 
the lawful government of the United States by the proclamation of the President 
of July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two : Provided, That such property 
shall not include any kind or description which has been used, or Avhich was 
intended to be nsed, for waging or carrying on war against the United States, 
such as arms, ordnance, ships, steamboats, or other water craft, and the furni- 
ture, forage, military supplies, or munitions of war. 

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any part of the goods or property 



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received or collected by such agent or agents may be appropriated to public use 
on due appraisement and certificate thereof, or forwarded to any place of sale 
within the loyal States as the public interests may require ; and all sales of such 
property shall be at auction to the highest bidder, and the proceeds thereof shall 
be paid into the treasury of the United States. 

Sec. 3. And he it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury may 
require the special agents appointed imder this act to give a bond, with such 
securities and in such amount as he shall deem necessary, and to require the in- 
crease of said amounts and the strengthening of said security as circumstances 
may demand ; and he shall also cause a book or books of accounts to be kept, 
showing from whom such property was received, the cost of transportation, and 
the proceeds of the sale thereof. And any person claiming to have been the 
owner of any such abandoned or captured property may, at any time within two 
years after the suppression of the rebellion, prefer his claim to the proceeds 
thereof in the Court of Claims ; and on proof to the satisfaction of said court of 
his ownership of said property, of his right to the proceeds thereof, and that he 
has never given any aid or comfort to the present rebellion, to receive the resi- 
due of such proceeds, after the deduction of any purchase money which may 
have been paid, together with the expense of transportation and sale of said 
property, and any other lawful expenses attending the disposition thereof. 

Src. 4. And he it further enacted. That all property coming into any of the 
United States not declared in insurrection as aforesaid, from within any of the 
States declared in insurrection, through or by any other person than any 
agent duly appointed under the provisions of this act, or under a lawful clear- 
ance by the proper officer of the Treasury Department, shall be confiscated to 
the use of the government of the United States. And the proceedings for the 
condemnation and sale of any such property shall be instituted and conducted 
Tinder the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the mode prescribed by 
the eighty-ninth and ninetieth sections of the act of Marcli second, seventeen 
hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on 
imports and tonnage." And any agent or agents, person or persons, by or 
through whom such property shall come within the lines of the United States 
unlawfully, as aforesaid, shall be judged guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- 
viction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or 
imprisonment for any time not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of 
the court. And the fines, penalties, and forfeitures accruing under this act may 
be mitigated or remitted in the mode prescribed by the act of March three, sev- 
enteen hundr.'d and ninety-seven, or in such manner, in special cases, as the 
Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. 

Sec 5. And he it further enacted, That the fifth section of the "Act to fur- 
ther provide for the collection of the revenue upon the northern, northeastern, 
and northwestern frontier, and for other purposes," approved July fourteen, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall be so construed as to allow the temporary 
officers which had been or may be appointed at ports which have been or may 
be opened or established in States declared to be in insurrection by the procla- 
mation of the President on the first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, 
the same compensation which by law is allowed to permanent officers of the same 
position, or the ordinary compensation of special agents, as the Secretary of the 
Treasury may determine. 

Sec. 6. And he it further enacted. That it shall be the duty of every officer 
or private of the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, or any officer, 
sailor, or marine in the naval service of the United States, upon the inland 
waters of the United States, who may take or receive any such abandoned 
property, or cotton, sugar, rice, or tobacco, from persons in such insurrectionary 
districts, or have it under his control, to turn the same over to an agent appointed 
as aforesaid, who shall give a receipt therefor ; and in case he shall refuse or 



ACTS OF CONGRESS. 9 

neglect so to do, be shall be tried by a court-martial and shall be dismissed 
from the service, or, if an officer, reduced to the ranks, or suffer such other 
punishment as said court shall order, with the approval of the President of the 
United States. 

Skc. 7. And Itc it further enacted, That none of the provisions of this act 
shall apply to any lawful maritime prize by the naval forces of the United States. 

Approved March 12, 1863. 



AN ACT in addition to tlie several acts couceruinj^ commercial intercourse between loyal 
and insurrectionary States, and to provide for the collection of captured and abandoned 
property, and the prevention of frauds in States declared in insurrection. 

J5e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assemhlcd, That sales of captured and abandoned piop- 
erty under the act approved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, 
may be made at such places, in States declared in insurrection, as may be desig- 
nated by the Secretary of the Treasury, as well as at other places now authorized 
by said act. 

Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, That, in addition to the captured and 
abandoned property to be received, collected, and disposed of, as provided in 
said act, the said agents shall take charge of and lease, for periods not exceeding 
twelve months, the abandoned lands, houses, and tenements Avithin the districts 
therein named, and shall also provide, in such leases or otherwise, for the employ- 
ment and general welfare of all persons within the lines of national military 
occupation within said insurrectionary States formerly held as slaves, who are 
or shall become fi"ee. Property, real or personal, shall be regarded as abandoned 
when the lawful owner thereof shall be voluntarily absent therefrom, and en- 
gaged, either in arms or otherwise, in aiding or encouraging the rebellion. 

Sbc. 3. And he it further enacted, That all moneys arising from the leasing 
of abandoned lands, houses, and tenements, or from sales of captured and 
abandoned property collected and sold in pursuance of said act or of this act, or 
from fees collected under the rules and regulations made by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, and approved by the President, dated respectively the twenty- 
eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the thirty-first day of 
March, and the eleventh day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, 
or under any amendments or modifications thereof, which have been or shall be 
made by the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by the President, for 
conducting the commercial intercourse which has been or shall be licensed and 
permitted by the President, with and in States declared in insurrection, shall, 
after satisfying therefrom all proper and necessary expenses to be approved by 
the Secretary of the Treasviry, be paid into the treasury of the United States ; 
and all accounts of moneys received or expended in connection therewith shall 
be audited by the proper accounting officers of the treasury. That the first 
section of the " Act to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for 
the prevention of fraud in insurrectionary districts in the United States," ap- 
proved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, is hereby extended so 
as to include the descriptions of property mentioned in an act entitled " An act 
further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," 
approved July thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and an act entitled 
"An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and 
confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July seven- 
teen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, respectively ; and that the sales provided 
for in said act first mentioned may be made at such place as may be designated 
by the Secretary of the Treasury. And section six of said first-mentioned act 
is hereby amended so as to include every description of property mentioned iu 



10 ACTS OF CONGRESS. 

the acts of July thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and July seventeen, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, aforesaid ; and that all property, real or per- 
sonal, described in the acts to which this is in addition, shall be regarded as 
abandoned when the lawful owner thereof shall be voluntarily absent therefrom, 
and engaged, either in arms or otherwise, in aiding or encouraging the rebellion. 

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the prohibitions and provisions of 
the act approved July thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the acts 
amendatory or supplementary thereto, shall apply to all commercial intercourse 
by and between persons residing or being within districts within the present or 
future lines of national military occupation in the States or parts of States de- 
clared in insurrection, whether with each other or with persons residing or 
being within districts declared in insurrection and not within those lines ; and 
that all persons within the United States, not native or naturalized citizens 
thereof, shall be subject to the same prohibitions, in all commercial intercourse 
with inhabitants of States or parts of States declared in insurrection, as citizens 
of loyal States are subject to under the said act or acts. 

Sec. 5. And he it further enacted. That whenever any part of a loyal State 
shall be under the control of insurgents, or shall be in dangerous proximity to 
places under their control, all commercial intercourse therein and therewith shall 
be subject to the same prohibitions and conditions as are created by the said 
acts, as to such intercourse between loyal and insurrectionary States, for such 
time and to such extent as shall from time to time become necessary to protect 
the public interests, and be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the 
approval of the President. 

Sec. G. And lie it further enacted. That so much of the fifth section of the 
act approved May twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the fourth 
section of the act approved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, as 
directs the manner of distributing fines, penalties, and forfeitures, is hereby re- 
pealed, and that, in lieu of the distribution thereby directed to be made to in- 
formers, collectors, and other officers of the customs, the court decreeing con- 
demnation may award such compensation to customs officers, informers, or other 
persons, for any service connected therewith, as will tend to promote vigilance 
in protecting the public interests, and as shall be just and equitable, in no case, 
however, to exceed the aggregate amount heretofore directed by the said fifth 
section. 

Sec. 7. And he it fmtker enacted, That no property seized or taken upon 
any of the inland waters of the United States by the naval forces thereof shall 
be regarded as a maritime prize ; but all property so seized or taken shall be 
promptly delivered to the proper officers of the courts, or as provided in this act 
and in the said act approved March twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. 

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted. That it shall be lawful for the Secretary 
of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, to authorize agents to pur- 
chase for the United States any products of States declared in insurrection, at 
such places therein as shall be designated by him, at such prices as shall be 
agreed on with the seller, not exceeding the market value thereof at the place of 
delivery, nor exceeding three-fourths of the market value thereof in the city of 
New York at the latest quotations known to the agent purchasing : Provided, 
That no part of the purchase-money for any products so purchased shall be paid 
or agreed to be paid out of any other fund than that arising from property sold 
as captured or abandoned, or purchased and sold under the provisions of this act. 
All property so purchased shall be forwarded for sale at such place or places as 
shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the moneys arising 
therefrom, after payment of the purchase money and the other expenses con- 
nected therewith, shall be paid into the treasury of the United States ; and the 
accounts of all moneys so received and paid shall be rendered to, aud audited 
by, the proper accouilting officers of the treasury. 



ACTS OF CONGRESS. 11 

Sec. 9. And' he Itfurtlier enacted, That so much of section five of the act of 
thu'teenth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, aforesaid, as authorizes the 
President, in his discretion, to license or permit commercial relations in any State 
or section the inhabitants of which are declared in a state of insurrection, is 
hereby repealed, except so far as may be necessary to authorize supplying the 
necessities of loyal persons residing in insurrectionary States within the lines of 
actual occupation by the military forces of the United States, as indicated by 
published order of the commanding general of the department or district so oc- 
cupied ; and, also, except so far as may be necessary to authorize persons re- 
siding within such lines to bring or send to market in the loyal States any pro- 
ducts which they shall have produced with their own labor or the labor of freed- 
men or others employed and paid by them, pursuant to rules relating thereto 
which may be established under proper authority. And no goods, wares, or 
merchandise shall be taken into a State declared in insurrection, or transported 
therein, except to and from such places, and to such monthly amounts, as shall 
have been previously agreed upon in writing by the commanding general of the 
department in which such places are situated, and an officer designated by the 
Secretary of the Treasury for that purpose. 

Sec. 10. And he itfurtlier enacted. That all officers and privates of the reg- 
ular and volunteer forces of the United States, and all officers, sailors, and ma- 
rines in the naval service, are hereby prohibited from buying or selling, trading, 
or in any way dealing in the kind or description of property mentioned in this 
act and the act to which this is in addition, whereby to receive or expect any 
profit, benefit, or advantage to himself, or any other person directly or indirectly 
connected with him. And it shall be the duty of such officer, private, sailor, or 
marine, when such property shall come into his possession or custody, or within 
his control, to give notice thereof to some agent appointed by virtue of this act, 
and to turn the same over to such agent without delay. Any officer of the 
United States, civil, military, or naval, or any sutler, soldier, marine, or other 
person, who shall violate any provision of this act, or who shall take or cause to 
be taken into a State declared to be in insurrection, or to any other point, to be 
thence taken into such State, or who shall transport or sell, or otherwise dispose 
of therein, any goods, wares, or merchandise whatsoever, except in pursuance of 
license and authority of the President, as provided in said fifth section of the 
act of July thirteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, aforesaid, and any officer 
or other person aforesaid who shall make any false statement or representation 
upon which license and authority shall be granted for such transportation, sale, 
or other disposition, and any officer or other person aforesaid who shall, under 
any license or authority obtained, wilfully and knowingly transport, sell, or 
otherwise dispose of any other goods, wares, or merchandise than such as are in 
good faith so licensed and authorized, or shall wilfully and knowingly transport, 
sell, or dispose of the same, or any portion thereof, in violation of the terms of 
such license or authority, or of any rule or regulation prescribed by the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury concerning the same, or shall be guilty of any act of em- 
bezzlement, of wilful misappropriation of public or private money or property, 
of keeping false accounts, or of wilfully making any false returns, or of any other 
act amounting to a felony, shall be liable to indictment as for a misdemeanor, 
and fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and to punishment in the peniten- 
tiary not exceeding three years, before any court, civil or military, competent to 
try the same. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, from 
time to time, to institute such investigations as may be necessary to detect and 
prevent frauds and abuses in the trade and other transactions contemplated by 
this act or by the acts to which this is supplementary. And the agents making 
such investigations shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, and 
to make examinations on oath. 



12 • ACTS OF CONGRESS. 

Sec. 11. A?id be it further enacted, That tlie Secretary of tbeTreasuiy, witli 
tlie approval of the President, shall make such rules and regulations as are 
necessary to secure the proper and economical execution of the provisions of this 
act, and shall defray all expenses of such execution from the proceeds of fees 
imposed by said rules and regulations, of sales of captured and abandoned prop- 
erty, and of sale? hereinbefore authorized. 

Approved July 2, 1864. 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PEESIDENT. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the 
President of the United States, in view of an insurrection against the laws, 
Constitution, and government of the United States, Avhich had broken out within 
the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, 
and Texas, and in pursuance of the provisions of the act entitled "An act to 
pi'ovide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress 
insurrections, and repel invasions, and to repeal the act now in force for that 
purpose," approved February twenty-eight, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, 
did call forth the militia to suppress said insurrection, and to cause the laws of 
the Union to be duly executed, and the insurgents have failed to disperse by the 
time directed by the President ; and whereas such insurrection has since broken 
out, and yet exists, within the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, 
and Arkansas ; and whereas the insurgents in all the said States claim to act 
imder the authority thereof, and such claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by 
the persons exercising the functions of government in such State or States, or 
in the part or parts thereof in which such combinations exist, nor has such in- 
surrection been suppressed by said States : 

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in 
pursuance of an act of Congress approved July thirteen, eighteen hundred and 
sixty-one, do hereby declare that the inhabitants of the said States of Georgia, 
South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, 
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida, (except the inhabitants of that part 
of the State of Virginia lying west of the Alleghany mountains, and of such 
other parts of that State and the other States hereinbefore named as may main- 
tain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or may be, from time 
to time, occupied ami controlled by forces of the United States engaged iu the 
dispersion of said insurgents,) are in a state of insurrection against the United 
States, and that all commercial intercourse between the same and the inhabit- 
ants thereof, Avith the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and 
other parts of the United States is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such 
insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed ; that all goods and chattels, 
wares and merchandise, coming from any of said States, with the exceptions 
aforesaid, into other parts of the United States, without the special license and 
permission of the President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, or pro- 
ceeding to any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, by land or water, 
together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, or conveying persons 
to or from said States, with said exceptions, will be forfeited to the United 
States ; and that, from and after fifteen days from the issuing of this proclama- 
tion, all ships and vessels belonging in whole or in part to any citizen or inhabit- 
ant of any of said States, with said exceptions, found at sea, or in any port of 
the United States, will be forfeited to the United States ; and I hereby enjoin 
upon all district attorneys, marshals, and officers of the revenue, and of the mili- 
tary and naval forces of the United States, to be vigilant in the execution of 
said act, and in the enforcement of the penalties and forfeitures imposed or de- 
clared by it, leaving any party who may think himself aggrieved thereby to 
his application to the Secretary of the Treasury for the remission of any penalty 



14 PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

or forfeiture, -wliich the said Secretary is authorized by law to grant, if, in his 
judgment, the special circumstances of any case shall require such remission. 

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my haud, and caused the seal of the 
United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this sixteenth day of August, in the year 
of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-oue, and of the independence of the 
United States of America the eighty-sixth. 

[l. S.J ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, Secretary of State- 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, in and by the second section of an act of Congress passed on the 
7th day of June, A. D. 1S62, entitled " An act for the collection of direct taxes 
in insurrectionary districts within the United States, and for other purposes," 
it was made the duty of the Pi-esident to declare on or before the first day of 
July then next following, by his proclamation, in what State and parts of States 
insurrection exists : 

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 
States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the States of South Car- 
olina. Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, 
Tennessee, North Carolina, and the State of Virginia, except the following 
counties : Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshal, Wetzel, Marion, Jlonongalia, Pres- 
ton, Taylor, Pleasants, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, 
Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmore, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, 
Randolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, AVayne, Boone, 
Logan, Wyoming, Webster, Fayette, and Raleigh, are now in insurrection and 
rebellion, and by reason thereof the civil authority of the United States is ob- 
structed so that the provisions of the "Act to provide increased revenue from 
imports, to pay the interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved 
August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, cannot be peaceably executed, 
and that the taxes legally chargeable upon real estate under the act last afore- 
said, lying within the States and parts of States as aforesaid, together with a 
penalty of fifty per centum of said taxes, shall be a lien upon the tracts or 
lots of the same, severally charged, till paid. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the 
United States to be affixed. 

Done in tlie city of Washington, this first day of July, in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty -two, and of the independence of the 
United States of America the eighty-sixth. 

[l. s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

By the President : 

F. W. Seward, 

Acting Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, in pursuance of the act of Congress approved July 13, 1861, I did, 
by proclamation dated August 16, 1S61, declare that the inhabitants of the States 
of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT 15 

Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida (except tlie inhabitants of 
that part of Virginia lying west of the Alleghany mountains, and of such other 
parts of that State and the other States hereinbefore named as might maintain a 
loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or might be from time to time 
occupied and controlled by forces of the United States engaged in the dispersion 
of said insurgents) were in a state of insurrection against the United Stales, and 
that all commercial intercourse between the same and the inhabitants thereof, 
with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts 
of the United States was .unlawful, and would remain unlawful until such insur- 
rection should cease or be suppressed, and that all goods and chattels, wares 
and merchandise coming from any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, 
into other parts of the United States, without the license and permission of the 
President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, or proceeding to any of said 
States, with the exceptions aforesaid, by land or water, together with the vessel 
or vehicle conveying the same to or from said States, with the exceptions afore- 
said, would be forfeited to the United States. 

And whereas experience has shown that the exceptions made in and by said 
proclamation embarrass the due enforcement of said act of July 13, 1861, and 
the proper regulation of the commercial intercourse authorized by said act with 
the loyal citizens of said States : 

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do 
hereby revoke the said exceptions, and declare that the inhabitants of the States 
of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, 
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and Virginia (except the forty-eight 
counties of Virginia designated as West Virginia, and except, also, the ports of 
New Orleans, Key West, Port Royal, and 13eaufort in North Carolina,) are in 
a state of insurrection against the United States, and that all commercial inter- 
course, not licensed and conducted as provided in said act, between the said 
States and the inhabitants thereof, with the exceptions aforesaid, and the citi- 
zens of other States and other parts of the United States, is unlawful, and will 
remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or has been suppressed, and 
notice thereof has been duly given by proclamation ; and all cotton, tobacco, and 
other products, and all other goods and chattels, wares and merchandise coming 
from any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the 
United States, or proceeding to any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, 
without the license and permission of the President, through the Secretary of 
the Treasury, will, together with the vessel or vehicle conveying the same, be 
forfeited to the United States. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the 
United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this thirty-first day of March, A. D. 1863, 
and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh. 

[l. s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 
A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, in and by the Constitution of the United States, it is provided 
that the President "shall have power to grant repiieves and pardons for offences 
against the United States, except in cases of impeachment;" and 

Whereas a rebellion now exists whereby the loyal State governments of 



16 , PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

several States have for a long time been subverted, anil many persons have 
committed and are now guilty of treason against the United States;" and 

Whereas, with reference to said rebellion and treason, laws have been enacted 
by Congress, declaring forfeitures and contiscatiou of property and liberation 
of slaves, all upon terms and conditions therein stated, and also declaring that 
the President was thereby authorized at any time thereafter, by proclamation, 
to extend to persons who may have participated in the existing rebellion, in 
any State or part thereof, pardon and amnesty, with such exceptions and at 
such times and on such conditions as he may deem expedient for the public 
welfare; and 

Whereas the congressional declaration for limited and conditional pardon 
accords with well-established judicial exposition of the pardoning power; and 

Whereas, with reference to said rebellion, the President of the United States 
has issued several proclamations, with provisions in regard to the liberation of 
slaves ; and 

Whereas it is now desired by some persons heretofore engaged in said rebel- 
lion to resume their allegiance to the United States, and to reiuaugurate loyal 
State governments within and for their respective States: 

Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim, 
declare, and make known to all persons who have, directly or by implication, 
participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, that a full 
pardon is hereby granted to them and each of them, with rest' iratiou of all 
rights of property, except as to slaves, and in property cases where rights of 
third parties shall have intervened, and upon the condition that every such 
person shall take and subscribe an oath, and thenceforward keep and maintain 
said oath inviolate; and which oath shall be registered for permanent preserva- 
tion, and shall be of the tenor and effect following, to wit: 

" I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that 

I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the 
United States and the Union of the States thereunder; and that I will, in like 
manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the 
existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, 
modified, or held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court; and 
that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all proclamations of 
the President made during the existing rebellion having reference to slaves, so 
long and so far as not modified or declared void by decision of the Supreme 
Court: so help me God." 

The persons excepted from the benefit of the foregoing provisions are all who 
are, or shall have been, civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so-called con- 
federate government ; all who have left judicial stations under the United States 
to aid the rebellion; all who are, or shall have been, military or naval officers 
of said so-called confederate government above the rank of colonel in the army, 
or of lieutenant in the navy ; all who left seats in the United States Congress 
to aid the rebellion ; all who resigned commissions in the army or navy of the 
United States, and afterwards aided the rebellion ; and all wlio have engaged 
in any way in treating colored persons, or white persons in charge of such, 
otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war, and which persons may have been 
found in the United States service as soldiers, seamen, or in any other capacity. 

And 1 do further proclaim, declare, and make knuwn, that whenever, in any 
of the States of Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, 
Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina, a number of persons, not 
less than one-tenth in number of the votes cast in such State at the presidential 
election of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, each 
having taken the oath aforesaid, and not iiaving since violated it, and being a 
qualified voter by the election law of the State existing immediately before the 
so-called act of secession, and excluding all others, shall re establish a State 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 17 

government which shall be republican, and in nowise contravening said oath, 
such shall be recognized as the true government of the State, and the State 
shall receive thereunder the benefits of the constitutional provision which declares 
that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republi- 
can form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and, 
on application of the legislatui'e, or the executive, (when the legislature cannot 
be convened,) against domestic violence." 

And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that any provision which 
may be adopted by such State government in relation to the freed people of such 
State, which sh ill recognize and declare their permanent freedom, provide for 
tlieir education, and which may yet be consistent, as a temporary arrangement, 
with their present condition as a laboring, landless, and homeless class, will not 
be objected to by the national Executive. And it is suggested as not improper 
that, in constructing a loyal State government in any State, the name of the 
State, the boundary, the subdivisions, the constitution, and the general code of 
laws, as before the rebellion, be maintained, subject only to the modifications 
made necessary by the conditions hei-einbefore stated, and such others, if any, 
not contravening said conditions, and which may be deemed expedient by those 
framing the new State government. 

To avoid misunderstanding, it may be proper to say that this proclamation, so 
far as it relates to State governments, has no reference to States where loyal State 
governments have all the while been maintained. And for the same reason, it 
may be proper to further say that whether members sent to Congress from 
any State shall be admitted to seats constitutionally rests exclusively with the 
respective houses, and not to any extent with the Executive. And still further, 
that this proclamatiun is intended to pi'esent the people of the States wherein 
the national authority has been suspended, and loyal State governments have 
been subverted, a mode in and by which the national authority and loyal State 
governments maybe re-established within said States, or in any of them; and, 
while the mode presented is the best the Executive can suggest, with his present 
impressions, it must not be understood that no other possible mode would be 
acceptable. 

Given under my hand at the city of Washington, the eighth day of Decem- 
ber, A D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence 
of the United States of America the eighty-eighth. 

[l. s.] ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



DEPARTMENT OF STATE. 
By the President of the United States of America. 

, A PROCLAMATION. 

Whereas, by my proclamation of the twenty-ninth of April, one thousand 
eight hundred and sixty-five, all restrictions upon internal, domestic, and com- 
mercial intercourse, with certain exceptions therein specified and set forth, were 
removed " in such parts of the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, 
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and so much of Louisi- 
ana as lies east of the Mississippi river, as shall be embraced within the lines of 
national military occupation ; * * * " 

And whereas, by my proclamation of the twenty-second of May, one thou- 

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18 . PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 

saiul eight Imndred and ?ixty-five, for reasons therein given, it was declared 
that certain ports of the United States whicli had been previously closed against 
foreign commerce, should, with certain specified exceptions, be reopened to such 
commerce, on and after the first day of July next, subject to the laws of the 
United States and in pursuance of such regulations as might be prescribed by 
the Secretary of the Treasury ; 

And whereas 1 am satisfactorily informed that dangerous combinations against 
the laws of the United States no longer exist within the State of Tennessee; 
that the insurrection heretofore existing within said State has been suppressed ; 
that within the boundaries thereof the authority of the United States is undis- 
puted ; and that such officers of the United States as have been duly commis- 
sioned are in the undisturbed exercise of their official functions : 

Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the 
United States, do hereby declare that all restrictions upon internal, domestic, 
and coastwise intercourse and trade, and upon ttie removal of products of States 
heretofore declared in insurrection, reserving and excepting ovly those I'elating 
to contraband of war, as hereinafter recited, and also those which relate to the 
reservation of the rights of the United States to property purchased in the ter- 
ritory of an enemy, heretofore imposed in the territory of the United States east 
of the Mississippi river, are annulled, and I do hereby direct that they be forth- 
with removed ; and that on and after the first day of July next all restrictions 
up n foreign commerce with said ports, with the exception and reservation afore- 
said, be likewise removed ; and that the commerce of such States shall be con- 
ducted under the supervision of the regularly appointed officers of the customs 
provided by law ; and such officers of the customs shall receive any captured 
and abandoned property that may be turned over to them, under the law, by 
the military or naval forces of the United States, and dispose of such property 
as shall be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury. The following articles 
contraband of war are excepted from the effect of this proclamation : arms, am- 
munition, all articles from which ammunition is made, and gray uniforms and 
cloth. 

And I hereby also proclaim and declare that the insurrection, so far as it re- 
lates to and within the State of Tennessee, and the inhabitants of the said 
State of Tennessee as reorganized and constituted under their recently adopted 
constitution and reorganization, and accepted by them, is suppressed, and there- 
fore, also, that all the disabilities and disqualifications attaching to said State 
and the inhabitants thereof consequent upon any proclamations, issued by vir- 
tue of the fifth section of the act entitled " An act further to provide for the col- 
lection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved the thirteenth 
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, are removed. 

But nothing herein contained shall be considered or construed as in any wise 
changing orimpaiiing any of the penalties and forfeitures for treason heretofore 
incurred under the laws of the United States, or any of the provisions, restric- 
tions, or disabilities set forth in my proclamation, bearing date the twenty-ninth 
day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, or as impairing exist- 
ing regulations for the suspension of the habeas corpus, and the exercise of mil- 
itary law in cases where it shall be necessary for the general public safety and 
welfare during the existing insurrection ; nor shall this proclamation affect, or 
in any way impair, any laws heretofore passed by Congress, and duly approved 
by the President, or any proclamatimis or orders, issued by him, during the 
aforesaid insurrection, abolishing slavery, or in any way affecting the relations 
of slavery, whether of persons or of property ; but, on the contrary, all such 
laws and proclamations heretofore made or issued are expressly saved, and de- 
clared to be in full force and virtue. 

In testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of 
tlic United States to be affixed. 



PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT. 19 

Done at the city of Washington, this thirteenth day of June, in the year of 
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independence 
of the United States of America the eighty-ninth. 

[seal.] ANDREW JOHNSON. 

By the President : 

William H. Seward, 

Secretary of State. 



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 
A proclamation. 

Whereas it has been the desire of the general government of the United 
States to restore unrestricted commercial intercom'se between and in the several 
States as soon as the same could be safely done, in view of resistance to the au- 
thority of the United States by combinations of armed insurgents ; 

And whereas that desire has been shown in my proclamations of the twenty- 
ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the thirteenth of 
June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and the twenty-third of June, 
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five ; 

And whereas it now seems expedient and proper to remove restrictions upon 
internal, domestic, and coastwise trade and commercial intercourse between and 
within the States and Territories west of the Mississippi river : 

Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the 
United States, do hereby declare that all restrictions upon intei-nal, domestic, 
and coastwise intercourse and trade, and upon the purchase and removal of pro- 
ducts of States and parts of States and Territories heretofore declared in insur- 
rection, lying west of the Mississippi river, (excepting only those relating to 
property heretofore purchased by the agents, or captured by or surrendered to 
the forces of the United States, and to the transportation thereto or therein, on 
private account, of arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammunition is 
made, gray uniforms and gray cloth,) are annulled ; and I do hereby direct that 
they be forthwith removed ; and also that the commerce of such States and 
parts of States shall be conducted under the supervision of the regularly aji- 
pointed officers of the customs, [who] shall receive any captured and abandoned 
property that may be turned over to them, under the law, by the military or 
naval forces of the United States, and dispose of the same in accordance with 
instructions on the subject, issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of 
the United States to be affixed. 

Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of June, in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independ- 
ence of the United States of America the eighty-ninth. 

[seal.] ' ANDREW JOHNSON. 

By the President : 

W. Hunter, Acting Secretary of State. 



REGULATIONS 

CONCERNING 

INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMEIICIAL INTERCOURSE. 



Treasury Department, August 28, 1862. 
In pui suance of law, and by virtue of the authority conferred upon the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury by the act of Congress approved July 13, 1S61, enti- 
tled " An act further to provide for the coUection of duties on impoits, and for 
other purposes," and an act supplementary thereto, ap])roved May 20, 1862, 
and for the purpose of preventing the conveyance of arms, munitions of war, 
and other supplies to persons in insurrection against the United States, the fol- 
lowing regulations concerning commercial intercourse with insurrectionary 
States and sections are prescribed. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



I. No goods, wares, or merchandise, whatever may be the ostensible destina- 
tion thereof, shall be transported to any place now under the control of insur- 
gents ; nor to any place on the south side of the Potomac liver; nor to any 
place on the north side of the Potomac, and south of the AYashington and An- 
napolis railroad ; nor to any place on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake ; nor 
to any place on the south side of the Ohio river below Wheeling, except Louis- 
ville ; nor to any place on the west side of the Mist^issippi river below the mouth 
of the Des Moines, except St. Louis, without a permit of a duly authorized 
officer of the Treasury Department. And the special agents of this department 
may temporarily extend these restrictions to such other places in their respect- 
ive districts, and make such local rules to be observed therein as may from time 
to time become necessary, promptly reporting their action to the Secretary of 
the Treasury for his sanction or disapproval. 

II. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section heretofore de- 
clared to be in insurrection is absolutely prohibited, except for military pur- 
poses and under military orders, or under the special license of the Secretary of 
the Treasury. And no payment of gold or silver shall be made for cotton or 
other merchandise within any such State or section. And all cotton or other 
merchandise purchased or paid for therein, directly or indirectly, in gold or sil- 
ver, shall be forfeited to the United States. 

III. No clearance or permit whatsoever will be granted for any shipment to 
any port, place, or section affected by the existing blockade, except for military 
purposes, and n})on the certificate and request of the Department of War or the 
Department of the Navy. 

IV. All applications for permits to transport or trade under these regulations 
shall state the character and value of the merchandise to be transported, the 
consignee and destination thereof, with the route of transportation and the num- 
ber and description of the packages with the marks thereon. 

V. Every apj)li"ant for such permits shall present with his application the 
original invoices of the goods, wares, and merchandise to be transported, and 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE 21 

shall make and file with the ofBcer granting the permit an affidavit that the 
■quantities, descriptions, and values are correctly stated in said invoices, true 
copies of which shall be annexed to and filed with the affidavit, and that the 
packages contain nothing except as stated in the invoices ; that the merchan- 
dise so permitted shall not, nor shall any part thereof, be disposed of by him or 
by his authority, connivance, or assent, in violation of the t rms of the permit, 
and that neither the permit so granted, nor the merchandise to be transported, 
shall be so used or disposed of by him or by his authority, connivance or assent, 
as in any way to give aid, comfort, information, or encoura,i!;ement to persons in 
insurrection against the United States. And furthermore, that the applicant is 
loyal to the government of the United States and will in all things so deport 
himself. 

VI. No permit shall be granted to ship goods, wares, or merchandise to 
States or parts of States heretofore declared to be in insurrection, or to places 
i;nder insurrectionary control, or occupied by the military forces of the United 
States, except to persons residing or doing business therein whose loyalty and 
good faith shall be certified by an officer of the government or other person duly 
authorized to make such certificate, or by a duly appointed Board of Trade 
therein, by whose approval and permission only the same shall be unladed or 
disposed of. And no permit shall be granted to sliip rnerchandise//-o;?i any 
such State or part of State in violation of any order restricting shipments there- 
from, made for military purposes by the commandant of the department from 
which such shipment is to be made. 

Yii. Collectors or surveyors of customs, before granting clearances or per- 
mits, may require bond, with reasonable surety, in such cases as they shall think 
necessary, to protect the public interests, conditioned that there shall be no vio- 
lation of the terms or spirit of the clearance or permit, or of the averments of 
the affidavit upon which the same is granted. 

VIII. No permit shall be granted to ship intoxicating drinks, or other thing 
prohibited by the military authorities, into territory occupied by the military 
forces of the United States, except upon the written request of the commandant 
of the departtnent in which such territory is embraced, or of some person duly 
authorized by him to make such request. 

IX. In order to defray the expenses under these regulations, a fee of twenty 
cents will be charged for each permit granted ; and shipments permitted to and 
from States heretofore declared to be in insurrection shall, in addition thereto, 
b" charged with the following fees, viz : five cents on each one hundred dollars 
over three hundred dollars on all shipments to such States or sections ; fifty 
cents on each one thousand pounds of cotton, and twenty-five cents on each one 
thousand pounds of sugar permitted from such State. 

X. No vessel, boat, or vehicle used for transportation upon or south of the Po- 
tomac river, or north of the Potomac and south of the Washington and Annapolis 
railroad, or to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake, or southwardly on or from 
the Ohio river below Wheeling, or westwardly or southwardly on or from the 
Mississippi river below the mouth of the Des Moines, shall receive on board any 
goods, wares, or merchandise destined to any place commercial intercourse with 
which now is or hereafter may be restricted as aforesaid, unless the same be 
accompanied with a permit of a duly authorized officer of the Treasury Depart- 
ment, except as hereinafter provided in regulation number XIV. 

XI. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for transportation from eastern 
cities, or elsewhere in the loyal States, shall carry goods, wares, or merchandise 
into any place, section, or State restricted as aforesaid, without the permit of 
the duly authorized officer of the customs, application for which permit may be 
made to such authorized officer near the point of destination as may suit the 
convenience of the shipper. 

XII. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for transportation shall put off any 



22 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

goods, wares, or merchandise at any place other than that named in the pennit 
as the place of destination. 

XIII. Before any boat or vessel running on any of the western waters south of 
Louisville or St. Louis, or other waters within or adjacent to any State or sec- 
tion c mmercial intercourse Avith which now is or may hereafter be restricted 
as aforesaid, shall dejiart from any port where there is a collector or surveyor 
of customs, there shall be exhibited to the collector or surveyor, or such other 
ofScer as may be antliorized to act in his stead, a true manifest of its entire cargo 
and a clearance obtained to proceed on its voyage ; and when freights are re- 
ceived oil board at a place where there is no collector or surveyor, as hereinafter 
provided in regulation XIV, then the same exhibit shall be made and clearance 
obtained at the first port to be passed where there is such an officer ; and such 
vessel or boat shall be reported, and the manifest of its cargo exhibited, to the 
collector or surveyor of every port to be passed on the trip where there is such 
an officer; but no new clearance shall be necessary unless additional freights 
shall have been taken on board after the last clearance. Immediately on 
arriving at the port of final destination, and before discharging any part of its 
cargo, the manifest shall be exhibited to the surveyor of such port, or other 
officer authorized to act in his stead, whose approval for landing the cargo shall 
be indorsed on the manifest bi fore any part thereof shall be discharged ; 
and the clearance and shipping permits of all such vessels and boats shall be 
exhibited to the officer in command of any naval vessel or military post whenever 
such officer may require it. 

XIV. To facilitate trade and guard against improper transportation, *' aids to 
the revenue" will be appointed from time to time on cars, vessels and boats, 
when desired by owners, agents, or masters thereof, which aids will liave free 
carriage on the respective cars, vessels and boats on which tliey are placed, and 
will allow proper way freights to be taken on board without permit, keeping a 
stalenif-nt thereof, and reporting the same to the collector or surveyor of the first 
port to be passed on the trip where there it such an officer, from whom a permit 
therefor must be obtained, or the goods returned under his direction, No permit 
will be granted for transportation into any insurrectionary State or district ex- 
cept on cars, vessels and boats carrying such aids. 

XV. All vessels, boats and other vehicles used for transportation violating 
any of the above regulations, and all goods, wares and merchandise shipped or 
transported in violation thereof, will be forfeited to the United States. If any 
false statement be made or deception practiced in obtaining a permit, such per- 
mit, and all others connected therewith or affected thereby, will be absolutely 
void, and all merchandise shipped thereunder shall be forfeited to the United 
States. In all cases of forfeiture as aforesaid, immediate seizure will be made 
and proceedings instituted promptly for condemnation. The attention of all 
officers of the government, common carriers, shippers, consignees, owners, masters, 
agents, drivers, and other pesons connected with the transportation of merchan- 
dise, or trading therein, is particularly directed to the acts of July 13, 1861, and 
May 20, 1862, above referred to. 

XVI. All army supplies transported under military orders are excepted from 
the above regulations. But this exception does not extend to sutlers' goods or 
others designed for sale at military posts or camps. 

XVII. When any officer of the customs shall find in his district any goods, 
wares, or merchandise which in his opinion are in danger of being transported 
to insurgents, he may, if he thinks it expedient, require the owner or holder 
thereof to give reasonable security that they shall not be transported to any 
place under insuriectionary control, and shall not in any way be used to give 
aid or encouragement to the insurgents. If the required security be not given, 
such officer shall promptly state the facts to the United States marshal for the 
district within which such goods are situated, or, if beyond the jurisdiction of a 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 23 

United States marshal, then to the commandant of the nearest military post, 
whose duty it shall be to take possession thereof, and hold them for safe keep- 
ing, reporting the facts promptly to the Secretary of the Treasury, and awaiting 
instructions. 

XVIII. Where ports heretofore blockaded have been opened by the procla- 
mation of the President, licenses will be granted by United States consuls, 
on application by the proper parties, to vessels clearing from foreign ports 
to the ports so opened, upon satisfactory evidence that the vessels so licensed 
will convey no person, property, or information contraband of war, either to or 
from said ports, which license shall be shown to the collector of the port to M^hich 
the vessel i'^ bound, and, if required, to any officer in charge of the blockade. 
And on leaving any port so opened, the vessel must have a clearance from the 
collector, according: to law, showino; no violation of the conditions of the license. 
Any violation of the conditions Avill involve the forfeiture and condemnation of 
the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from entering 
the United States for any purpose during the war. 

XIX. United States vessels clearing from domestic ports to any of the ports so 
opened, will apply to the custom-house officers of the proper ports, in the usual 
manner, for licenses or clearances under the regulations heretofore established. 



War Department, 
WasJiington City, August 28, 1862. 
The attention of all officers and others connected with the army of the United 
States is called to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury concerning 
commercial intercourse with insurrectionary States or sections, dated August 28, 
1862. 

I. Commandants of departments, districts, and posts will render all such mil- 
itary aid as may become necessary in carrying out the provisions of said regu- 
lations and enforcing observance thereof to the extent directed by the Secretary 
of the Treasury, so far as can possibly be done, without danger to the opera- 
tions or safety of their respective commands. 

II. There will be no interference with trade or shipments of cotton or other 
merchandise conducted in pursuance of said regulations within any territory oc- 
cupied and controlled by the foi-ces of the United States, unless absolutely ne 
ccssary to the successful execution of military plans or movements therein. But 
in cases of violations of the conditions of any clearance or permit granted under 
said regulations, and in cases of unlawful traffic, the guilty party or parties will 
be arrested and the fjicts promptly reported to the commandant of the depart- 
ment for orders, 

III. No officer of the army or other person connected therewith will seize 
cotton or other pi'operty of individuals unless expo>ed to destruction by the 
enemy, or needed for military purposes, or for confiscation under the act of Con- 
gress, and in all such cases of seizure the same shall be promptly reported to 
the commandant of the department wherein they are made for his orders therein. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 



Navv Department, August 28, 1862. 

The attention of naval officers is called to the i-egulations of the Secretary of 
the Treasury concerning commercial intercourse with insurrectionary States or 
sections, dated August 28, 1862. 

I. Commanders of naval vessels will render such aid as mjiy be necessary in 



24 IliTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE 

carrying out the provisions of paid regulations, an cl enforcing observance thereof 
to the extent directed by the Secretary of the Treasury so far as can possibly 
be done without danger to the operations or safety of tlieir respective commands. 

II. There will be no interference with trade in or shipments of cotton or other 
merchandise conducted in pursuance of said regulations within any of the waters 
controlled by the naval forces of the United States, unless absolutely necessary 
to the successful execution of military or naval plans or movements. But in 
cases of the violation of the conditions of any clearance or permit granted under 
said regulations, and in cases of unlawful traffic, the guilty party or parties will 
be arrested and the facts promptly reported. 

Ill No officer of the navy will seize cotton or other property of individuals 
ti^lliin the territory opened for traffic, and subject to the regulations of the Sec- 
retary of the Treasui-y, unless the same is exposed to destruction by the enemy 
or needed for naval purposes, or for confiscation under the act of Congress ; 
and in all such cases the fact with all attendant circumstances shall be promptly 
reported to the department. 

GIDEON WELLES, 

Secretary. 



Treasury Departme:vt, 

Washington, March 31, 18G3. 

1 he President of the United States, in pursuance of the act of Congress ap- 
proved July 13, 1861, entitled "An act further to provide for the collection of 
duties on imports, and for other purposes," having declared that the inhabitants 
of the States of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, 
liOui-siana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, and Virginia, except the forty- 
eight counties of Virginia designated as West Virginia, and except the ports of 
New Orleans, Key Wett, Port Royal, and Beaufort, in North Carolina, are in 
insurrection against the United States, and that all commercial intercourse be- 
tween the same and the inhabitants thereof, except as aforesaid, and the citizens 
of other States and other parts of the United States is unlawful, except as licensed 
and permitted by the President, and conducted under the regulations of the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury, as provided by said act : 

Now, therefore, for the purpose of securing the due execution of the said act, 
and the supplementary act approved May 20, 1862, and for the purpose of safely 
and properly conducting such commercial intercourse as may be licensed and 
permitted by the President pursuant to the provisions of said acts, and also for 
the [lurpose of preventing the conveyance of arms and other munitions of war 
and supplies to persons in insurrection against the United States, the following 
regulations are hereby prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasui-y in pursuance 
of the authority conferred upon him by the said acts. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



REGULATIONS. 

Skc I. No goods, wares, or merchandise, whatever may be the ostensible 
destination thereof, shall be transported to any place now under the control of 
insurgents ; nor to any place on the south side of the Potomac river ; nor to any 
place on the north side 6f the Potomac, and south of the Washington and An- 
napolis railroad ; nor to any place on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake ; nor 
to any place on the south side of the Ohio river below Wheeling, except Louis- 
ville ; nor to any place on the west side of the Mississippi river below the mouth 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 25 

of the Des Moinos, except St. Louis, witliout a permit of a cluly authorized officer 
of the Treasury Department. 

Skc. II. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section hereto- 
fore declared to be in insurrection is absolutely prohibited, except for military 
purposes and under military orders, or under the special license of the President. 
And no payment of gold or silver shall be made for cotton or other merchandise 
within any such State or section. And all cotton or other merchandise purchased 
in any such State or section, to be paid for therein, directly or indirectly, in gold 
xr silver, or foreign bills of exchange, shall be forfeited to the United States. 

Sec. III. No clearance or permit whatsoever will be granted for any ship- 
ment to any port or place affected by the existing blockade, except for military 
purposes, and upon the certificate and request of the Department of War or th# 
Department of the Navy. 

Skc. IV. All applications for permits to transport goods or property under 
these regulations shall state the character and value of the merchandise to be 
transported, the place from and to which such transportation is to be made, the 
names of the owner and shipper and consignee thereof, and the number and 
description of the packages, with the marks thereon. 

Sec. V. Every applicant for a permit to transport goods, wares, or mei'chan- 
dise for purposes of trade into or within any place or section named in the first 
section of these regulations, shall present with his application the original invoices 
of the goods, wares, and merchandise to be transported, and shall make and file 
with the oflicer granting the permit an affidavit that the names of the owners, 
the quantities, descriptions, and values of the merchandise are correctly stated 
in said invoices, true copies of which shall be annexed to and fik-d with the affi- 
davit ; and that the marks on the packages are correctly stated in the applica- 
tion, ami that the packages contain nothing except as stated in the invoices; 
that the merchandise so permitted shall not, nor shall any part thereof, be dis- 
posed of by him or by his authority, connivance, or assent, in violation of the 
terms of the permit, and that neither the permit so granted nor the merchandise 
to be transported shall be so used or disposed of b}' him or by his autiiority, 
connivance, or assent, as in any way to give aid, comfort, information, or encour- 
agement to persons in insurrection against the United States. And furthermore, 
that the apj)licant is loyal to the government of the United States, and will in 
all things so deport himself. 

Sec. VI. Whenever commercial intercourse with any part or section of a 
State heretofore declared in insiarrection is permitted by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, under the license of the President, in pursuance of the said act ap- 
proved July 13, 1861, notice thereof and of the conditions under which the same 
may be conducted shall be published in such papers as the Secretary may think 
expedient, in order to the general informatiim of parties interested. 

Sec. VII. After commercial intei'conrse with any part or section of an insur- 
rectionary State has been permitted as aforesaid, permits to transport to or from 
any place therein, or to purchase or sell in any place therein for use in any other 
place, shall be granted only by such persons a-s shall be specially authorized by 
the Secretary of the Treasury after the date hereof. And no permit shall be 
granted by any such person to transport to or from, or to purchase or sell in any 
place or section whatever not within the military lines of the United States army. 

Sec. VIII. Every permit to purchase cotton, tobacco, or other merchandise 
within any place or section in a State heretofore declared in insurrection, after 
commercial intercourse therewith shall have been permitted by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, under the license of the President as aforesaid, and every permit 
to transport the same thereto, therein, or therefrom, shall clearly define the char- 
acter and quantity of the merchandise so permitted to be sold, purchased, or 
transported, and the place or section within which the same may be purchased 
or sold, and to and from which the same may be transported. 



26 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

Skc. IX. A fee of twenty cents will be cliarged for each permit granted for 
purposes of trade, under these regulations ; and, in addition thereto the following 
fees shall be collected, viz : for a permit to purchase or sell cotton or tobacco 
within any place or section in a State heretofore declared in insurrection, com- 
mercial intercourse with which has been permitted by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, under the license of the President as aforesaid, and to transport the 
same therefrom to any place in the loyal States, four cents per pound of cotton, 
and two dollars per hogshead of tobacco ; and for a permit to transport any other 
goods and chattels, wares and merchandise, designed for sale, except supplies 
for officers and soldiers, shipped by sutlers to or from any such place or section 
in an insurrectionary State, five per centum upon the sworn invoice value 
thereof, at the place of shipment. 

Sec. X. Every officer authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to grant 
permits under these regulations shall keep in his office a record of all his trans- 
actions under such authority, and especially he shall keep a record of every 
permit granted by him, showing the names of the owner, shipper, and consignee, 
the places from and to which each transportation is permitted, the character and 
invoice value of the merchandise permitted to be transported, and the fees 
received therefor, an abstract statement of which, together with the names and 
compensation of all aids to the revenue reporting to him, shall be given to the 
proper supervising special agent of the Treasury Department on the first of every 
month. 

Skc. XI. No permit shall be granted to purchase or sell cotton, tobacco, or 
other goods, wares or merchandise, designed for trade within any place 
or section aforesaid, nor to transport the same therein, thereto, or there- 
from, except to persons who shall, before receiving such permit, make affidavit 
that they are in all respects loyal and true to the government of the United 
States, and that they have never voluntarily given aid to the rebels in arms, 
nor in any other manner encouraged the rebellion ; and that they will at all 
times, by their conduct and conversation, and by every other means they can 
properly use, do all that should be expected of them as loyal citizens to suppress 
the rebellion and restore obedience to the Constitution and laws of the United 
States. 

Sec. XII. Collectors or surveyors of customs, before granting clearances, may 
require bond, with reasonable surety, in such cases as they shall think necessary, 
to protect the public interests, conditioned that there shall be no violation of the 
terms or spirit of the clearance, or of the averments of the affidavit upon which 
the same is granted. 

Sec. XIII. No permit shall be granted to ship intoxicating drinks, or other 
thing prohibited by the military authorities, into territory occupied by the mili- 
tary forces of the United States, except upon the written request of the com- 
mander of the department in which such territory is embraced, or of some person 
duly authorized by him to make such request. 

Sec. XIV. No vessel, boat, or vehicle used for transportation upon or south 
of the Potomac river, or north of the Potomac, and south of the Washington 
and Annapolis railroad, or to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake, or south- 
wardly on or from the Ohio river below Wheeling, or Avestwardly or southwardly 
on or from the Mississippi river below the mouth of the Des Moines, or on 
or from the Mississippi river in any direction below the mouth of the Ohio, 
shall receive on board any goods, wares, or merchandise destined to any place, 
commercial intercourse with which now is, or hereafter may be, restricted as 
aforesaid, unless the same be accompanied with a permit of a duly authorized 
officer of the Treasury Department, except as hereinafter provided in regulation 
number XVII I. 

Sec. XV. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle used for transportation from any 
place -in the loyal States, shall carry goods, wares, or merchandise, into any 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 27 

place, section, or States, restricted as aforesaid, without the permit of a duly- 
authorized officer of the Treasury Department, application for which permit may 
be made to such authorized officer near the point of destination as may suit the 
convenience of the shipper. 

Sec. XVI. No vessel, boat or other vehicle used for transportation shall put 
off any goods, wares, or merchandise, at any place other than that named in the 
permit as the place of destination. 

Sec. XVII. Before any boat or vessel running on any of the western waters 
south of Louisville or St. Louis, or other waters within or adjacent to any State 
or section, commercial intercourse with which now is or may hereafter be re- 
stricted as aforesaid, shall depart from any port where there is a collector or 
surveyor of customs, there shall be exhibited to the collector or surveyor, or 
such other officer as may be authorized to act in his stead, a true manifest of its 
entire cargo and a clearance obtained to proceed on its voyage ; and when 
freights are received on board at a place where there is no collector or surveyor 
as hereinafter provided in section XVIII, then the same exhibit shall be 
made and clearance obtained at the first port to be passed where there is such 
an officer, and such vessel or boat shall be reported and the manifest of its cargo 
exhibited to the collector or surveyor of every port to be passed on the trip 
where there is such an officer ; but no new clearance shall be necessary unless 
additional freights shall have been taken on board after the last clearance. Im- 
mediately on arriving at the port of final destination, and before discharging any 
part of its cargo, the manifest shall be exhibited to the surveyor of such port, 
or other officer authorized to act in his stead, whose approval for lariding the 
cargo shall be indorsed on the manifest before any part thereof shall be dis- 
charged ; and the clearance and shipping permits of all such vessels and boats 
shall be exhibited to the officer in command of any naval vessel or military 
post whenever such officer may require it. 

Sec. XVIII. To facilitate trade and guard against improper transportation, 
" aids to the revenue " will be appointed from time to time on cars, vessels, and 
boats, wlien desired by owners, agents, or masters thereof, which aids will have 
free carriage on the respective cars, vessels, and boats on which they are placed, 
and will allow proper way freights to be taken on board without permit, keep- 
ing a statement thereof, and reporting the same to the first officer to be passed 
on the trip who is authorized to grant the permit desired, from whom a permit 
therefor must be obtained, or the goods shall be returned to the shipper under 
bis direction. No permit will be granted for transportation into or within any 
insurrectionary State or district, except on cars, vessels, and boats carrying 
such aids. 

Sec. XIX, Supervising special agents of the Treasury Department will be 
appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to supervise within designated 
limits the execution of these regulations, and to make such local rules and re- 
strictions, not inconsistent with them, as may be proper for that purpose, and 
to change the same from time to time, and temporarily suspend or qualify the 
authority to grant permits, as the public interests may require, subject to the 
approval of the Secretary of the Treasury ; and all permits and clearances 
authorized under these regulations will be granted only in compliance with such 
local rules and restrictions as may be approved as aforesaid. 

Sec. XX. Boards of trade will be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
at such places as he may think necessary, to aid in the due enforcement of these 
regulations, and in properly conducting such commercial intercourse between 
the inhabitants of States declared in insurrection and the citizens of other 
States and other parts of the United States, as may be permitted under the 
license of the President. 

Sec. XXI. All vessels, boats, and other vehicles used for transportation 
violating any of the above regulations, or any of the local rules and restrictions 



28 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

made by a supervisiiij:^ special agent, with the approval of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, and all cotton, tobacco, or other merchandise shipped or transported 
or purchased or sold in violation thereof, will be forfeited to tlie United States. 
If any false statement be made or deception practiced in obtaininj::; a permit, such 
permit and all others connected therewith or affected thereby will be absolutely 
void, and all mercliandise shipped under them shall be forfeited to the United 
States. In all cases of foifciture, as aforesaid, immediate seizure will be made 
and proceedings instituted promptly for condemnation. The attention of all 
officers of the government, common carriers, shippers, consignees, owners, mas- 
ters, agents, drivers, and other persons connected with the transportation of 
mercliandise, or trading therein, is particularly directed to the acts of July 13, 
1861, and May 20, 1862, above referred to, and March 12, 1863, and these 
regulations for executing the same. 

Src. XXII. Transportation of supplies belonging to or contracted for by the 
United States, designed for the military or naval forces thereof and moving un- 
der military or naval orders, is excepted from the effect of these regulations ; 
but this exception does not extend to sutlers' goods or others designed for sale 
at military posts or camps. 

Sec XX III. When any collector, surveyor, special agent, or board of trade, 
charged with the execution of these regulitions and the laws authi)rizing them, 
shall liud within his or their proper limits any goods, wares, or merchandise, 
which, in his or tlieir opinion, are in danger of being transported to insurgents, 
he or they may require the owner or holder tliereof to give reasonable security 
that they shall not be transported to any place under insurrectionary control, 
and shall not in any way be used to give aid or encouragement to the insurgents. 

If the required security be not given, such officer or officers shall promptly 
state the facts to the United States marshal for the district within which such 
goods are situated, or, if beyond the jurisdiction of a United States marshal, 
then to the commander of the nearest military post, whose duty it shall be to 
take possession thereof, and hold them for safe keeping, reporting the facts 
promptly to the Secretary of the Treasury, and awaiting instructions. 

Sf.c. XXIV. Where ports heretofore blockaded have been opened by the 
proclamation of the President, licenses Avill be granted by United States consuls, 
on application by the proper parties, to vessels clearing from foreign ports to the 
ports so opened, upon satisfactory evidence that the vessel so licensed will coq- 
vey no person, property, or information contraband of war, either to or from said 
ports, wliich license shall be shown to the collector of the port to which the 
vessel is bound, and, if required, to any officer in charge of the blockade. And 
on leaving any port so opened, the vessel mast have a clearance from the col- 
lector, according to law, showing no violation of the conditions of the license. 
Any violation of the conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of 
the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from entering 
the United States for any purpose during the war. 

Sec. XXV. United States vessels clearing from domestic ports to any of the 
ports so opened will apply to the custom-house officers of the proper ports, in 
the usual manner, for licenses or clearances under the regulations heretofore 
established. 

Skc. XXVI. These regulations shall supersede those of August 28, 1862, 
and all others conflicting herewith, affecting commercial intercoiu-se with insur- 
rectionary States, and no permits will be hereafter granted by any officer of the 
Treasury Department, except in pursuance hereof, and of the local rules and 
resti'ictions aforesaid, and by virtue of authority hereafter given by the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury. 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 29 

[General Orders No. 88. ] 

War Department, 
Was/rington, March 31, 1863. 
For the purpose of more effectually preventing all commercial inercourse 
with insurrectionary States, except such as shall be authorized in pursuance of 
law, and of securing consistent, uniform, and eiiicient action in conducting such 
intercourse as shall be so authorized, and for the purpose of carrying out the 
provisions of an act of Congress entitled " An act to provide for the collection 
of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary States," 
approved March 12, 1863, it is hereby ordered : 

I. That no officer of the airny of the United States nor other person connected 
therewith shall authorize or have any interest in the transportation of any goods, 
wares, or merchandise (except supplies helonging to or contracted for by the 
United States, designed for the military or naval forces thereof, and moving un- 
der military or naval orders, and except, also, sutlers' supplies and other things 
necessary for the use and comfort of the troops of the United States and moving 
under permits of the authorized officers of the Ti'easury Department) into any 
State declared by the President to be in insurrection ; nor authorize nor have 
any interest in the purchase or sale therein of any goods or chattels, wares or 
merchandise, cotton, tobacco, or other product of the soil thereof; nor the trans- 
portation of the same, except as aforesaid, therefrom or therein ; nor shall any 
such officer or person authorize, prohibit, or in any manner interfere with any 
such purchase or sale or transportation, which shall be conducted under the reg- 
ulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, unless under some imperative mili- 
tary necessity, in the place or section where the same shall be conducted, or 
unless requested by an agent or some other authorized officer of the Treasury 
Department, in which case all commanders of military departments, districts, 
and posts will render such aid in carrying out the provisions of the said act, and 
in enforcing due observance of the said regulations of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, as can be given without manifest injury to the public service. 

II. It is further ordered that every officer or private, or person employed in 
or with the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, who may receive or 
have under his control any property which shall have been abandoned by the 
owner or owners, or captured in any district declared to be in insurrection 
against the United States, including all property seized under military orders, 
excepting only such as shall be required for military use of the United States 
forces, shall promptly turn over all such property to the agent appointed by the 
Secretary of the Treasury to receive the same, who shall give duplicate receipts 
therefor. 

And every such officer or private, or person employed in or with the regular 
or volunteer forces of the United States, shall also promptly turn over to such 
agent, in like manner, all receipts, bills of lading, and other papers, documents, 
and vouchers showing title to such property, or the right to the possession, con- 
trol, or direction thereof; and he shall make such order, indorsement, or writing 
as he has power to make, to enable such agent to take possession of such prop- 
erty or the proceeds thereof. Arms, munitions of war, forage, horses, mules, 
wagons, beef cattle, and supplies Avhich are necessary in military operations, shall 
be turned over to the proper officers of the ordnance, or of the quartermastei-, or 
of the commissary departments, respectively, for the use of the army. All other 
property abandoned or captured or seized, as aforesaid, shall be delivered to the 
agent appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

The officer receiving or turning over such property shall give the usual and 
necessary invoices, receipts, or vouchers therefor, and shall make regular returns 
thereof, as prescribed by the army regulations. The receipts of the agents of 



30 INTERNAL AXD COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

the Treasury Department shall be vouchers for all property delivered to them, 
and whenever called upon by the agent of the Treasury Department authorized 
to receive such abandoned or captured or seized property, as aforesaid, or the 
proceeds thereof, all persons employed in the military service will give him full 
information in regard tliereto; and if requested by him so to do, they shall give 
him duplicates or copies of the reports and returns thereof, and of the receipts, 
invoices, and vouchers therefor. 

And every officer of the army of the United States, hereafter receiving 
abandoned or captured or seized property, or the proceeds thereof, or under 
whose order it may be applied to the use of the military forces, as aforesaid, 
shall, upon request of a duly authorized agent of the Treasury Department, 
render a written report, with invoices thereof, to said agent, in which he will 
specify the arms, supplies, or other munitions of war, retained for the use of the 
military forces, as aforesaid, and also, separately, the property turned over to 
said agent, or which may have been sold or otherwise disposed of. 

And in case a sale of any such property shall be made under his authority, 
or under the authority of any one subject to his order, he will so state, and 
will describe the property so sold, and will state when and where and by and 
to whom sold, and the amount received therefor, and what disposition was made 
of the proceeds. 

And all officers of the array of the United States will at all times render to 
the agents appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury all such aid as may be 
necessary to enable them to take possession of and transport all such property, 
so far as can be done without manifest injury to the public service. 

Ill All commanders of military departments, districts, and posts will, upon 
receipt of this order, revoke all existing orders within their respective commands 
conflicting or inconsistent herewith, or which permit or prohibit or in any man- 
ner interfere with any traile or transportation conducted under the regulations 
of the Secretary of the Treasury ; and their attention is particularly directed to 
said regulations, prescribed March -31, 1863, and they will respectively make 
such orders as will insure strict observance of this order throughout their re- 
spective commands. 

All expenses of transporting property herein referred to w'ill be reported by 
the officers of the quartermasters' department, who furnish such transportation, 
to the agents of the Treasury Department, and also, through the ordinary 
channels, to the Quartermaster General at Washington, in order that the said 
expenses may be reimbursed from the proceeds of sales of such transported 
property. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 



Navy Department, 
Washington, March 31, 1863. 

Tor the purpose of more effectually preventing all commercial intercourse 
with insurrectionary States, except such as shall be authorized in pursuance of 
law, and of securing consistent, uniform, and efficient action in conducting such 
intercourse as shall be so authorized, and for the purpose of carrying out the 
provisions of an act of Congress entitled " An act to provide for the collection 
of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary 
States," approved March 12, 1863, it is hereby ordered — 

I. That no officer of the navy of the United States, nor other person connected 
therewith, sh;ill authorize, or have any interest in, the transportation of any 
goods, wares, or merchandise (except supplies belonging to, or contracted for 
by, the United States, designed for the military or naval forces thereof, and mov- 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 31 

iiig under military or naval orders, and except also sutlers' supplies and other 
things necessary for the use and comfort of the naval forces of the United States, 
and moving under permits of the authorized officers of the Treasury Department) 
into any State declared by the President to be in insurrection ; nor authorize nor 
have any interest in the purchase or sale therein of any goods or chattels, wares 
or merchandise, cotton, tobacco, or other products of the soil thereof; nor the 
transportation of the same, except as aforesaid, therefri)m or therein ; nor shall 
any such officer or person authorize, prohibit, or in any manner interferii with 
any such purchase or sale or transportation which shall be conducted under the 
regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, unless under some imperative mil- 
itary necessity in the place or section where the same shall be conducted, or un- 
less requested by an agent or some other authorized officer of the Treasury 
Department, iu which case all officers of the navy of the United States and 
other persons connected therewith will render such aid in carrying out the pro- 
visions of the said act and of the law, and in enforcing due observance of the 
said regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, as can be given without man- 
ifest injury to the public service. 

II. It is further ordered that every officer, sailor, or marine in the naval service of 
the United States who shall receive or have under his control any property 
which shall have been abandoned by the owner or owners, or captured iu any 
district declared to be in insurrection against the United States, including all 
property seized in any such district, under naval orders, excepting only such as 
shall be required for the use of the naval forces of the United States, and as is 
excluded by the act of March 12, 1S63, shall promptly turn over all such prop- 
erty to the agent appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive the 
same, who shall give receipts therefor, if desired. 

And every such officer, sailor, or marine shall also turn over to such agent in 
like manner all receipts, bills of lading, and other papers, documents, and vouch- 
ers showing title to such property, or the right to the possession, control, or di- 
rection thereof; and he sliall make such order, indorsement, or writing as he 
has power to make to enable such agent to take possession of such property, or 
the proceeds thereof. Arms, muuiiions of war, forage, horses, mules, wagons, 
beef cattle, and supplies which are necessary in naval operations, shall be turned 
over to the proper officers for the use of the navy. All other property aban- 
doned, captured, or seized, as aforesaid, shall be delivered to the said agent of 
the Treasury Department. 

The officer receiving or turning over such property shall give the usual and 
necessary invoices, receipts or vouchers iherefor, and shall make regular returns 
thereof as prescribed by the navy regulations. The receipts of the agents of 
the Treasury Department shall be vouchers for all property delivered to them. 
And whenever called upon by the said agent of the Treasury Department 
authorized to receive such abandoned, or captured, or seized property, as afore- 
said, or the proceeds thereof, all persons employed in the naval service of the 
United States will give him full information in regard thereto, and if requested 
by him so to do, they shall give him duplicates or copies of the reports and 
returns tliereof, and of the receipts, invoices and vouchers therefor. 

And every officer of the navy of the United States hereafter receiving 
abandoned, or captured, or seized property in any insurrectionary State as 
aforesaid, or the proceeds thereof, or under whose order it may be applied to the 
use of the naval forces as aforesaid, shall, upon request of an agent appointed 
by the Secretary of the Treasury as aforesaid, render a written report, with 
invoices thereof, to said agent, in which he will specify tlie arms, supplies, or 
other munitions of war retained for use of the naval forces, as aforesaid, and also, 
separately, the property turned over to said agent, or which may have been sold 
or otherwise disposed of. And in case a sale of any such property shall be 
made under his authority, or under the authority of any one subject to his order, 



32 ^^JTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

he -will so state, and will describe the property so sold, and will state when and 
where, and by and to whom sold, and the amount received therefor, aad what 
disposi ion was made of the proceeds. 

And all officers of the navy of the United States will, at all times, render to 
the agents appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury all such aid as may be 
necessary to enable them to take possession of any abandoned, or captured, or 
seized property aforesaid, and in transporting the same, so far as can be done 
without manifest injury to the public service. 

All expenses of transporting property herein referred to will be reported hy 
the officers who furnish the transportation to the agent of the Treasury Depart- 
ment, and also, through the proper channels, to the Navy Department at Wash- 
ington, in order that the expenses may be reimbursed from the proceeds of sales 
of such transported property. 

III. All naval officers in command of squadrons, vessels, or stations will, upon 
receipt ot this order, revoke all existing orders throughout their respective com- 
mands conflicting or inconsistent herewith, or which permit, or prohibit, or in 
any manner interfere with, any trade or transportation conducted under the reg- 
ulations of the Secretary of the Treasury not understood as applying to any 
lawful maritime prize by the naval forces of the United States;, and their atten- 
tion is particularly directed to said regulations, prescribed March 31, 18G3, and 
they will respectively make such orders as will insure strict observance of this 
order throughout their respective commands. 

GIDEON WELLES, 

Secretary of the Navy. 



LICENSE OF TRADE BY THE PRESIDENT. 

Washington, Exkcutive Mansion, 

MarcJt 31, 18G3. 

Whereas, by the act of Congress approved July 13, 1861, entitled "An act to 
provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," all com- 
mercial intercourse between the inhabitants of such States as should by procla- 
mation be declared in insurrection against the United States and the citizens of 
the rest of the United States was prohibited so long as such condition of hos- 
tility should continue, except as the same shall be licensed and permitted by the 
President to be conducted and carried on only in pursuance of rules and regu- 
lations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and whereas it appears 
that a partial restoration of such intercourse between the inhabitants of sundry 
places and sections heretofore declared in insurrection in pursuance of said act 
and the citizens of the rest of the United States will favorably affect the public 
interests : 

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, exer- 
cising the authority and discretion confided to me by the said act of Congress, 
do hereby license and permit such commercial intercourse between the citizens 
of loyal States and the inhabitants of such insurrectionary States in the cases 
and under the restrictions described and expressed in the regulations prescribed 
by the Secretary of the Treasury, bearing even date with these presents, or in 
such other regulations as he may hereafter, with my approval, prescribe. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 33 

CIRCULAR OF JULY 3, 1863. 

[This letter, addressed to Supervising Special Ag:ent Melleii and sent to the other supervi- 
sing special agents in July last, is republished, with some modificati»ns adapting it to the 
Revised Regufations, for the convenient information of all parties concerned.] 

Treasury Dkpartment, July 3, 1S63. 

Sir : I have received yonr letter of the 5th of June, from Memphis, and also 
those of previous dates from Cincinnati, relative to the collection of abandoned 
and captured property within the States heretofore declared to be iu insurrection. 
la reply, I think it important to direct your attention, in the first place, to 
the general distinctions under which all property subject to the disposition of 
national officers, within the district under your supervision, may be arranged. 

There may be said to be four classes of such property, viz : abandoned, cap- 
tured, commercial, and confiscable. 

First. Abandoned property is of two descriptions . first, that which has been 
deserted by the owners; and, second, that which has been voluntarily abandoned 
by them to the civil or military authorities of the United States. Such prop- 
erty is to be collected or leceived by the special agents of this department, and 
sold under the authority of the act of March 12, 1.SG3, and the proceeds, after 
deducting the expenses of transportation and sale, and other expenses attending 
the collection and disposition thereof, are to be deposited in the treasury, sub- 
ject to award by the Court of Claims. Before this court claimants to such 
property, or the proceeds thereof, have the right, under the act, to prefer their 
claims at any time after the sale and before the expiration of two years from 
the close of the war. No guarantee can be given to owners of abandoned 
property iu respect to the time when, or the persons to whom, proceeds will be 
paid. 

Second. Captured property is understood to be that which has been seized or 
taken from hostile possession by the military or naval forces of the United 
States, and is t(j be turned over, with certain exceptions named,, to the special 
agents of this department, in accordance with the provisions of the act of March 
12, 1863. All property taken possession of by military or naval forces, and 
turned over to special agents, must be regarded as irrima facie captured prop- 
erty. Such property you will receive and direct to be sold, and will cause the 
proceeds to be deposited in the treasury, subject to the future award of the 
Court of Claims. 

Captured property which is held as lawful prize by the navy is not to be turned 
over to the department agents, nor to be in any way controlled by them. 

Third. Commercial property is that which has been or may be sold and pur- 
chased under the license of the President, through permits granted by the officers 
of the Treasury Department. 

Fourth. Confiscable property is that which belongs to certain classes of per- 
sons, as recited in the confiscation act of July 17, 1862, and is liable to seizure 
and condemnation by judicial proceedings in the manner proscribed by that act. 
Great care must be exercised in properly classifying all property, that the 
provisions of the law applicable to each class may be complied with; and it 
must be remembered that with the property included in the fourth class, unless 
found deserted and abandoned, the agents of the Treasury Department have no 
authority to interfere. The execution of the confiscation act is confided, by its 
express terms, to the President, by whom the Attorney General has been charged 
with the direction of all seizures and proceedings under it. 

It must be remembered, also, that all property coming from insurrectionary 
districts into loyal States, or in reversed direction, or being transported within 
or to insurrectionary districts, in contravention of law or departmental regula- 
tions, is forfeited or forfeitable, and that it is the duty of the agents of the 

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34 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

department, as well as of otliei" proper officer?, to enforce the forfeitures tbua 
incurred ; but property thus forfeited or forfeitable must not be confounded with 
confiscated or confiscable property, which is to be proceeded against and dis- 
posed of under the act of July 17, 1862, or with prize property captured by the 
navy, and subject to disposition under the direction of prize commissioners and 
courts. 

In respect to property embraced in the first class, namely, abandoned prop- 
erty, it is to be obsei'ved that no agent is authorized to make any other assur- 
ances than that property voluntarily abandoned shall be faithfully disposed of 
under the law, so as to secure, as far as practicable in the existing condition of 
the country, the rights of owners. No authority is given, or intended to be 
given, to agents to make any promises of special immunities or advantages not 
specified in the law. 

In respect to both descriptions of abandoned property, whether found deserted 
or voluntarily abandoned, the law authorizes the payment of such expenses as 
must necessarily be incurred in its collection, or receipt and disposition. 

You will, therefore, pay all such expenses, including fees, taxes, freights, 
storage, charges, labor and other necessary expenses out of the general fund arising 
therefrom, being careful to avoid all useless or indiscreet expenditures, and to 
charge each particular lot or parcel Avith the specific or proportionate amount of 
expense pertaining to it, and, unless unavoidably prevented, to take vouchers 
therefor, to be filed with the account of sales in this department. 

Where property is liable to be lost or destroyed in consequence of its location 
being unknown to the special agents, or from other causes, and parties propose 
for compensation to collect and deliver it into the hands of the agents of this 
department, at points to be designated by them, you may contract for the col- 
lection and delivery thereof, on the best possible terms, not exceeding twenty- 
five per cent, of the proceeds of the property; which percentage must be full 
compensation for all expenses of whatever character incurred in collecting, pre- 
paring and delivering such property at tlie points indicated. Prior to any 
contract being entered into, each party proposing must submit, in writing, a 
statement, as near as may be, giving the kind and amount of property proposed 
to be collected, the location whence to be obtained, and all the facts and circum- 
stances connected Avith it, particularly as to its ownership ; and any contract 
made in pursuance of this authority will be restricted either to the collection and 
delivery of particular lots at named localities, which is preferred, or, when cir- 
cumstances cleaily justify, to the general collection and delivery of all abandoned 
property in limited districts, not greater in any case than one parish or county, 
and not more than one district to be assigned to one contractor. 

Before payment to any contractor for services in fulfilment of any contracts 
made in pursuance of this authority, a bond ecjual to the amount stipulated to 
be paid i ustbe given by him, indemnifying the United States against all claims 
to the property delivered on account of damages by trespass or otherwise, oc- 
casioned by the act or connivance of the contractor, and against all claims that 
may arise on account of expenses incurred in the collection, preparation, and 
transportation of said property to the points designated in such contract. 

Should cases arise justifying, in your opinion, the allowance of a larger per- 
centage than that herein authorized, you will refer such cases t(» this department, 
accompanied by a statement of the facts and circumstances connected therewith, 
together with such views and opinions of your own as you may think proper to 
submit for my consideration. 

If property of a perishable nature is found abandoned, and its immediate sale 
is required by the interests of all concerned, it may be disposed of as provided 
for by regulations. You will aim to mitigate, as far as possible, and will in no 
case do anything avoidable to augment the calamities of war. 

In relation to captured property you will observe the same directions, as far 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 35 

as tliey may be applicable, as to its receipt and subseqvient disposition, as are 
prescribed in relation to abandoned property. 

In relation both to captured and abandoned property, you will remember that 
no release must be granted to persons claiming ownership of property which has 
come to the possession of the agents of the department as abandoned, captured, 
or forfeited ; nor must any permits be granted to individuals to remove such 
property; nor must personal favors, in any case, be extended to one individual 
or party rather than to another ; nor must any liabilities be assumed or con- 
tracts made on the part of the United States not clearly Avarranted by law and 
the departmental regulations made in pursuance of law. 

In case furniture, or other movable propertj^ of like character, is abandoned 
or captured, you will cause it to be retained and left on the premises where 
found whenever it can be done with safety ; otherwise, if practicable, and not 
attended with too great cost, you will have it safely stored and properly marked 
and numbered, and will report the facts to this department and await further 
directions. 

Your principal embarrassments will doubtless arise from questions relating to 
property of the third class, or commercial property. 

The general purposes which, under the acts charging me with the regulation 
of the restricted commercial intercourse permitted by the President, I have kept 
steadily in view, have already been sufficiently explained in general regulations 
and in letters. 

They may be briefly stated thus : 1st. To allow within districts in insurrec- 
tionary States when tlie authority of the government is so completely re-estab- 
lished, in your judgment, sanctioned by that of the commanding general, as to 
warrant it, and between such districts and loyal States the freest commercial 
intercourse compatible with prevention of supplies to persons within rebel lines. 
2d. To allow beyond such districts, but within the lines of our military occupa- 
tion, such intercourse, sanctioned by the commanding general, as may be re- 
quired to supply the inhabitants with necessaries, but to allow no other until 
tlie complete re-establishment of the n&tional authority shall warrant it; and, 
3d. To allow no intercourse at all beyond the national and within the rebel lines 
of military occupation ; across these lines there can be no intercourse except that 
of a character exclusively military. 

The limits of the districts within which the most general trade may be allowed 
must necessarily be prescribed by you, after full conference with the command- 
ing generals of departments, whenever such conference is practicable, and these 
should be so clearly and distinctly marked by known geographical boundaries, 
or by the enumeration of counties, as to leave no uncertainty as to their 
course or comprehension. The limits of the regions within which necessaries 
may be supplied cannot be so clearly defined, but mast be ascertained as well 
as possible from the commanding generals, and the power to permit any supplies 
within them must be exercised with great caution. 

There does not seem to me to be so much danger in intercourse which does 
not involve the furnishing of supplies. If, for example, any person desires to 
bring cotton, tobacco, sugar, turpentine, or other property, already purchased, or 
to be purchased for money only, from any place within the lines of our military 
occupation, I can see no objection to his being permitted to do so, subject to the 
fees and obligations specified in the general regulations, on his giving a bond in 
a sufficient sum, and with sufficient sureties, conditioned that no military, naval, 
or civil officers or persons, prohibited by law, or by orders of the President, or 
of the Secretaries of War or Navy, or of military or naval commanders having 
proper authority, from being interested in such property, Avhether purchased or 
to be purchased, shall be so interested therein. Intercourse such as this might, 
it seems to me, be safely permitted, almost, if not quite, coextensively with our 
lines of military occupation. 



36 INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

Should this view meet the approval of the generals commanding departments 
within your agency, the question of intercourse M'ithiu the doubtful region be- 
tween what may be called the commercial and the military line would be re- 
duced to a question of the quantity of supplies allowed to be furnished for money. 

It is impossible at once to arrive at the best possible ways of accomplishing 
the great objects which Congress had in view in the several acts relating to com- 
mercial intercourse ; but if these objects themselves be kept steadily in view, 
namely, (1st,) non-intercourse between loyal States or districts and States or 
districts controlled by insurgents ; and (2d) modilied intercourse between loyal 
States or districts and States or districts partially regained to the Union, the 
best modes of accomplishing them will gradually disclose themselves. You will 
diligently observe the course of events, and hear attentively all suggestions made 
by respectable and loyal citizens, and report to me whatever may seem to you 
proper for consideration in establishing or modifying the regulations of the 
department. 

Nothing occurs to me as needing to be now added, except that hereafter the 
supervising special agents may establish, in conjunction with, or obedience to, 
the generals commanding departments, lines within which trade, more or less 
limited, may be carried on without awaiting my sanction, taking care, however, 
to give as general notice as practicable, through the press and otherwise, of the 
establishment or modification of such lines. All action under this authority 
must be immediately and specifically reported to the department. 
"With great respect, 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 

Wm. p. Mellen, Esq., 

Suj)ervising Special Agent, Sfc. 



CIRCULAR, SEPTEMBER 11, 1863. 

Treasury Department, September 11, 1863. 
To the Sjjecial Agents of the Treasury Departmcfit : 

Gentlemen : The President of the United States, having, by proclamation 
of July 1, 1862, declared and proclaimed that the States of South Carolina, 
Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, INIississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, 
North Carolina, and the State of Virginia, except the following counties, Han- 
cock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, 
Pleasants, Tyler, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane, 
Calhoun, Gilmer, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, Randolph, Mason, 
Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, 
Webster, Fayette, and Raleigh, are in insurrection and rebellion : 

And having also by proclamation on the 31st of March, 1863, revoked cer- 
tain exceptions made by his former proclamation dated August 16, 1861, and 
declared that the inhabitants of the States of Georgia, South Carolina, North 
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida, 
and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties of Virginia designated as West 
Virginia, and except, also, the ports of New Orleans, Key West, Port Royal, 
and Beaufort, in North Carolina,) are in a state of insurrection against the 
United States, and that all commercial intercourse, not licensed and conducted 
as provided in said act, between the said States and the inhabitants thereof with 
the exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States and other parts of the 
United States, is unlawful, and will remain unlawful until such insurrection shall 
cease or has been suppressed, and notice thereof has been duly given by proc- 



INTERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 37 

lamation ; and all cotton, tobacco, and other products, and all other goods and 
chattels, wares, and merchandise coming from any of said States, with the ex- 
ceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the United States, or proceeding to anj 
of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, without the license and permission 
of the President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, will, together with the 
vessel or vehicle conveying the same, be forfeited to the United States ; 

And the act of Congress " further to provide for the collection of duties on 
imports and for other purposes," approved July 13, 1861, having authorized 
said proclamation, and the license and regulations referred to ; 

And the act of Congi-ess supplementary to said act of July 13, 1S61, ap- 
proved May 20, 1862, having conferred additional powers on said Secretary, 
and prescribed further conditions of trade ; 

And the act of Congress approved March 12, 1863, entitled "An act to pro- 
vide for the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds 
in insurrectionary districts within the United States," having declared 

" That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, from and after the 
passage of said act, as he shall from time to time see fit, to appoint a special 
agent or agents to receive and collect all abandoned or captured property in any 
State or Territory, or any portion of any State or Territory, of the United 
States designated as in insurrection against the lawful government of the United 
States by the proclamation of the President of July 1, 1862 : Provided, That 
such property shall not include any kind or description which has been used, or 
which was intended to be used, for waging or carrying on war against the 
United States, such as arms, ordnance, ships, steamboats, or other water craft, 
and the furniture, forage, military supplies, or munitions of war;" 

And further, " That any part of the goods or property received or collected 
by such agent or agents may be appropriated to public use on due appraisement 
and certificate thereof, or forwarded to any place of sale within the loyal States, 
as the public interests may require, and that all sales of such property shall be 
at public auction to the highest bidder, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid 
into the treasury of the United States ;" 

And further, " that he shall cause a book or books of account to be kept, 
showing from whom such property was received, the cost of transportation, and 
the proceeds of the sale thereof;" 

And further, " that any person claiming to have been the owner of any such 
abandoned or captured property may, at any time within two years after the 
suppression of the rebellion, prefer his claim to the proceeds thereof in the Court 
of Claims ; and on proof, to the satisfaction of said court, of his ownership of 
said property, of his right to the proceeds thereof, and that he has never given 
any aid or comfort to the present rebellion, to receive the residue of such pro- 
ceeds after deducting the expenses of transportation and sale of said property, 
and any other lawful expenses attending the disposition thereof;" 

And further, " that it shall be the duty of any officer or private of the regu- 
lar or volunteer forces of the United States, or any officer, sailor, or marine in 
the naval service of the United States, upon the inland waters of the United 
States, who may take or receive any such abandoned property, or cotton, sugar, 
rice, or tobacco, from persons in such insurrectionary districts, or have it under 
his control, to turn the same over to an agent appointed as aforesaid, who shall 
give a receipt therefor ; and in case he shall refuse to do so he shall be tried by 
a court-martial, and punished as said court shall order, with the approval of the 
President of the United States;" 

And the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy having respectively 
made and published orders for the enforcing of said acts ; 

The following regulations are prescribed for the government of the several 
supervising, assistant, and local special agents and agency aids, appointed to 
carry said acts and the regulations made under them into effect, and for the pur- 



38 PATERNAL AND COASTWISE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

pose of conducting the commercial intercourse licensed and permitted by tbe 
President, and preventing the conveyance of munitions of war and supplies to 
insurgents, or to localities declared to be in insurrection against the United States, 
or in such quantities that there will be imminent danger of their falling into the 
possession or luider the control of insurgents ; and are published, together with 
the proclamations and license of the President, the several acts of Congress, 
and the orders of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, for the information 
of parties interested. 

AH officers charged with the execution of these regulations, while using neces- 
sary vigilance to pi-event supplies to rebels, either directly or by undue accumu- 
lation at points Avhere there will be imminent danger of their falling into their 
hands, and in collecting abandoned or captured property, will be careful to occa- 
sion as little inconvenience as possible to any legitimate trade or intercourse, or 
to loyal people. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



TRADE REGULATIONS. 



EXECUTIVE ORDER. 

ExEcuT[VE Mansion, 
Washington, September 11, 1863. 

The following' revised regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury having 
been seen and considered by me, are hereby approved. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



TRADE REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREAS- 
URY FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE LIMITED COMMERCIAL INTER- 
COURSE LICENSED BY THE PRESIDENT BETWEEN THE CITIZENS OF 
LOYAL STATES AND THE INHABITANTS OF STATES AND PARTS OF 
STATES HERETOFORE DECLARED TO BE IN INSURRECTION, AS RE- 
VISED AND PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 11,1863. 

DISTRICTS CREATED CALLED SPECIAL AGENCIES. 

I. The States and parts of States declared to be in insurrection, between 
which and the citizens of loyal States commercial intercourse has been or may 
be licensed by the President, to be conducted and carried on in pursuance of 
regulations and rules prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, are hereby 
divided into district?, called special agencies, to which supervising special agents, 
appointed by the Secretary, are assigned. 

SPECIAL AGENCIES NAMED AND DESCRIBED. 

II. The special agencies are distinguished numerically, and described as 
follows : 

The first special agency comprises the district of the United States west of 
the Alleghany mountains, known as the valley of the Mississippi, and extend- 
ing southward so as to include so much of the States of Alabama, Mississippi, 
Arkansas, and Louisiana as is or may be occupied by national forces operating 
from the north. 

The second special agency comprises the State of Virginia and so much of 
the State of West Virginia as lies east of the Alleghany mountains ; also the 
territory north and east thereof, from which ti'ade is carried on with the States 
or parts of States declared to be in insurrection. 

The third special agency comprises the State of North Carolina. 

The fourth special agency comprises the States of South Carolina, Georgia, 
and Florida. 

The fifth special agency comprises the State of Texas and so much of the 
States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi as is, or may be,, 
within the lines of the national forces operating from the south. 

Additional special agencies, if established, will be numerically designated in , 
the order of their establishment ; and if the boundaries of agencies already es- 
tablished shall be changed, due notice thereof will be given. 

SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS TO MAKE LOCAL RULES. 

III. Supervising special ag^ents will supervise within their respective a? -n- 
cies the execution of these regulations ; make and from time to time change such 



40 TRADE REGULATIONS. 

local rules, not inconsistent with them, as may be proper for that purpose, and 
temporarily suspend or qualify the authority to grant permits, if the public in- 
terest shall require it, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury ; 
and they will confer with generals commanding departments, and naval offi- 
cers commanding within their agencies, and obtain, as far as practicable, their 
sanction to such action as may affect their military or naval movements, and 
carefully avoid all interference with military or naval operations prosecuted by 
them. 

OFFICERS BY WHOM REGULATIONS AND LOCAL RULES WILL BE CARRIED INTO 

EFFECT, 

IV. These regulations, and the local rules prescribed by the several supervis- 
ing special agents for their respective agencies, will be carried into effect by 
assistant special agents, local special agents, and agency aids. Local special 
agents will take the place and perform the duties of the boards of trade hereto- 
fore authorized. Assistant special agents will be appointed by the Secretary of 
the Treasury; local special agents and agency aids will be appointed by the 
supervising special agents, or assistant special agents, as under regulation XXX, 
subject to the approval of the Secretary. 

RESTRICTION UPON TRANSPORTATION. 

V. No goods or merchandise will be allowed to be transported to, from, or 
within any State or part of a State under restriction, or declared in insurrection, 
except under permits, certificates, and clearances, as hereinafter provided. 

OFFICERS AUTHORIZED TO GRANT PERMITS. 

VI. The officers of the Treasury Department authorized to grant permits to 
districts in States or parts of States heretofore declared to be in insurrection, 
but where commercial intercourse has been or may be licensed by the President 
under regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, are the surveyors of cus- 
toms at Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Madison, Louisville, New Albany, 
Evansville, Paducah, Cairo, Quincy, St. Louis, Memphis, and Baltimore ; the 
collectors of customs at Philadelphia, Georgetown, Beaufort in North Carolina, 
and Port Royal in South Carolina; and the collector of internal revenue at 
New Orleans. Other officers will be designated to grant permits should the 
public interest I'equire it ; and no permit will be granted except by such officers 
as shall be authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury, or such as are approved 
by him, 

INTERCOURSE BEYOND THE LINE OF MILITARY OCCUPATION PROHIBITED. 

VII. Commercial intercourse with localities beyond the lines of military oc- 
cupation by the United States forces is strictly prohibited ; and no permit will 
be granted for the transportation of any property to any place under the control 
of insurgents against the United kStates. 

NO CLEARANCE OR PERMIT FOR BLOCKADED PORTS, EXCEPT AS A MILITARY 

NECESSITY. 

VIII. No clearance or permit whatsoever will be granted for any shipment 
to any port or place affected by the existing blockade, except upon the request 
of the Department of War or the Department of the Navy, either directly or 
through a specially authorized officer, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury 
or to some officer specially authorized by him, accompanied by a certificate that 
the articles are required for military or naval purposes, and in the manner and 
lorm prescribed by regulation XXXII. 



TRADE REGULATIONS. 41 



TRADE DISTRICTS, HOW CREATED AND DEFINED. 

IX. The several supervising special agents, within their rf tjpective agencies, 
will, after conference with the generals commanding departments when possible, 
and with their sanction, unless unavoidable circumstances prevent the obtaining 
of it, designate by known geographical boundaries, or by enumeration of coun- 
ties, that portion of territory included in their agencies, respectively, with which 
trade may be safely permitted, and report such designation to the Secretary. 
The part of territory so designated shall be called the trade district, and no 
transportation of goods, except as hereinafter provided, shall be permitted beyond 
the lines of such trade district. 

SUPPLY DISTRICTS, HOW CREATED AND DEFINED. 

X. If it shall appear that beyond the lines of the trade district, but within the 
lines of national military occupation, there is some territory within which the 
supply of necessaries is required by humanity and sound policy, while trade 
cannot yet be safely re-established, then the supervising special agents, with the 
sanction of the general commanding department, but in no case without his 
sanction, and subject to revocation or modification by the Secretary, may in 
like manner designate the portion of territory in their respective agencies to 
which goods may be properly permitted for individual and family supply, but 
for no other pui'pose. The territory so designated shall be called the supply 
district, and no goods shall be transported thereto for resale except as provided 
iu regulation XVIil. 

APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS SHALL STATE. 

XI. All applications for permits to transport goods or property under these 
regidations shall state the character and value of the merchandise to be trans- 
ported, the place to which such transportation is to be made, the names of the 
owner or purchaser, and, if any, of the shipper and consignee thereof, and the 
number and description of the packages, with the marks thereon. 

APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS TO TRANSPORT GOODS, HOW MADE. 

XII. Every applicant for a permit to ti'ansport goods, wares, or merchandise 
into or within any place or section where such transportation may be permitted, 
shall present with his application the original invoices of the goods, wares, and 
merchandise to be transported, and shall tile with the officer granting the permit 
the certificate of the local special agent authorizing it, if any be necessary, and 
an affidavit that the names of the owners, the quantities, descriptions, and values 
of the merchandise, are correctly stated in said invoices, true copies of which 
shall be annexed to and filed with the affidavit ; and that the marks on the 
packages are correctly stated in the application, and that the packages contain 
nothing except as stated in the invoices ; that the merchandise so permitted 
shall not, nor shall any part thereof, be disposed of by him, or by his authority, 
connivance, or assent, in violation of the terms of the permit, and that neither 
the permit so granted, nor the merchandise to be transported, shall be so used 
or disposed of by him, or by his authority, connivance, or assent, as in any way 
to give aid, comfort, information, or encouragement to persons in insurrection 
against the United States. All affidavits required by these regulations or by 
local rules shall be taken before a supervising, assistant, or local special agent, 
or some other authorized officer. 



42 - TRADE REGULATIONS. 



CERTIFICATE OF LOCAL SPE( lAL AGENT, TO WHOM GIVEN, AND NO PERMIT WITH- 
OUT CERTIFICATE, EXCEPT FOR FRUITS, VEGETABLES, ETC. 

XIII. No certificate ?hall be given by a local special agent in a State declared 
in insurrection for purchase of goods for resale, except to parties liaving trade 
stores under authority from the supervising special agent or assistant special 
agent designated by him, as hereinafter provided ; and no permit shall be granted 
to transport merchandise into any such State, unless authorized by such certifi- 
cate ; except that fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, ice, poultry, eggs, fresh butter, 
coal, wood, hay and other forage, beef-cattle, sheep, hogs, and household goods 
of families moving, may be permitted by the officers named in regulation VI to 
go to any not blockaded military post, fleet, or naval vessel, of the United States 
forces, without such certificate, but under careful discretion to prevent abuse of 
the exception. 

APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO CONTIVUE OR ESTABLISH TRADE STORES, TO 

WHOM AND HOW MADE. 

XIV. After a trade district in any agency shall be designated as aforesaid* 
persons of well-ascertained loyalty desiring to continue or establish trade stores 
therein may make application in writing to the proper supervising special agent, 
or to such assistant special agent as he shall designate for that purpose, set- 
ting foith the locality of the proposed trade store, and will make and attach to 
such application an affidavit that he is in all respects true to the government of 
the United States ; that he will faithfully conform to the proclamations and or- 
ders of the President of the United States and of the military governors and 
generals exercising authol-ity under him, and to departmental regulations author- 
ized by law, and that he will at all times, by his conduct and conversation, and 
by every other means he can properly use, aid in suppi'essing the rebellion and 
restoring obedience to the Constitution and laws of the United States. The 
supervising special agent, or the officer designated by him, will inquire into the 
character of the applicant and circumstances of the locality, and if deemed expe- 
dient will authorize him to sell at said trade store an amount of goods per month 
specified in the authority. A copy of the authority shall be filed with the local 
special agent nearest the trade store, who shall thereby be authorized to give 
the trader certificates amounting in the aggregate to the specified monthly sum, 
and upon which goods, wares, and merchandise not prohibited by regulations or 
local rules may be permitted by the proper collector or sm-veyor to be transported 
to such trade store. Great care will be exercised by the supervising special agent 
and assistant special agent designated by him to so limit the number of stores and 
quantities of goods to be permitted as to prevent undue accumulation of supplies 
at such stores ; and every trader, before receiving his authority, shall be required 
to execute a bond to the United States in a penalty, and with sureties to be ap- 
proved by the agent granting the authority, conditioned that he will not transport 
goods to any place other than to said trade store, or engage directly or indirectly 
in any prohibited trade, and that no part of the goods transported by him shall, 
with his knowledge or assent, or by his connivance, be so used or disposed of as 
to give aid or encouragement to the insurgents ; and also conditioned that no 
military, naval, or civil officer or person prohibited by law or by order of the 
President, or of military or naval commanders having proper authority, from 
being interested in the property purchased or sold by him, shall be so interested 
therein. 



TEADE REGULATIONS. 43 



AUTHORIZED TRADERS NOT TO WHOLESALE, EXCEPT IN MEMPHIS AND NASH- 
VILLE. TO KEEP TRUE ACCOUNTS AND FFLE AND PRESERVE PAPERS. PEN- 
ALTY FOR VIOLATING REGULATIONS OR LOCAL RULES. 

XV. Authorized traders (except in the cities of Memphis and Nashville, and 
such other cities or towns as may be hereafter designated by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, with the concurrence and approval of the general commanding 
department) shall not sell goods to others to be resold by them, but shall sell 
only to persons for their own individual, family, or plantation use, upon pre- 
sentation of the permit for transportation thereof of the proper local special agent, 
as provided in regulations XVI and XVII. In Memphis, Nashville, and other 
cities after designation as above, authorized traders may sell goods to other 
traders for purpose of resale, upon certificate of the proper local special agent. 
Persons and families residing iu Memphis, Nashville, and other cities after des- 
ignation thereof as above, may purchase supplies for their own consumption at 
any trade store therein without any permit or certificate; but goods so sold shall 
not be transported out of said cities except under permit of the proper ofiicer, to 
be issued only upon the certificate of the local special agent, as provided in 
regulation XVI. All authorized traders shall keep true accounts of all their 
sales, with the name and residence of each purchaser, and the date and amount 
of every sale, and shall file and preserve all cancelled permits under which goods 
have been transported, and copies of all permits under which sales have been 
made ; and their books, invoices, accounts, cancelled permits, and copies of per- 
mits shall be open to inspection of the supervising special agent, or assistant 
special agents under his direction. If any such trader shall violate any regula- 
tion Of local rule, his authority shall be revoked by the supervising special agent, 
or assistant special agent by him designated, and said revocation reported to the 
Secretary, and his stock in trade seized and forfeited to the United States. 

WHEN LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS MAY PERMIT SUPPLIES, AND ON WHAT CON- 
DITIONS. 

XVI. The purchase and transportation of individual, family and plantation 
supplies may be permitted by a local special agent, from any trade store in that 
part of a trade district for which he is appointed to the home of the applicant 
therein, upon application to him by the head of the family or such other person 
as shall be authorized by him or her iu writing : provided, that the applicant 
shall make afiidavit, and the agent shall be satisfied, that the supplies applied 
for are necessary for the use and consumption of such person or family during 
the two months next ensuing the date of the affidavit ; that no part thereof will 
be sold or otherwise disposed of by him or her, or by his or her assent, except 
for use of such person or family; and that, to the best of his or her knowledge 
and belief, no application has been made for any permit for the same or like 
supplies to any other ofiicer or agent, and that no supplies for the period men- 
tioned have been or are expected to be otherwise obtained ; and no one person 
shall be recognized as representing more than six families. 

AUTHORIZED COLLECTOR AND SURVEYOR MAY ALSO PERMIT SUPPLIES, WHEN 
AND ON WHAT CONDITIONS. 

Such trausportation may also be permitted by any authorized collector or 
surveyor out of the district for which the local special agent is appointed, upon 
his certificate and recommendation, granted upon the same application and affi- 
davit as above required. 



44 TRADE REGULATIONS. 



CONDITIONS UPON WHICH PARTIES IN SUPPLY DISTRICTS MAY OBTAIN SUPPLIES. 

XVII. Persons or families residing without the lines of the trade district, but 
within the lines of a supply district, may procure supplies on the certificate of 
the nearest local special agent that the supplies specified therein are necessary 
for the use and consumption of such person or family for a period of time not 
exceeding the month ensuing. All applications for such certificate must be 
made personally to the proper local special agent by such person, or a member 
of such family, or other person authorized by tlie head of the family ; and the 
applicant shall make and file with him an affidavit that the supplies applied for 
are necessary for the use and consumption of the person or family for the time 
specified, not exceeding one month next ensuing ; that no part thereof will be 
sold or otherwise disposed of by him or her, or by his or her assent, except for 
the use of such person or family, and that to the best of his or her knowledge 
and belief no application has been made for the same or like supplies to any 
other officer or agent, and that no supplies for the period mentioned have been 
or are expected to be otherwise obtained ; and no person shall be recognized 
as representing more than six families. The certificate so obtained must be 
presented to the nearest collector or surveyor, who, upon being satisfied that it 
has been properly granted, will issue a permit to the holder for the transportation 
of the articles specified therein ; but in cases where tne supplies are purchased 
at a trade store, and there is no authorized collector or surveyor within five 
miles thereof, the local special agent nearest to such trade store may grant such 
permit, retaining the certificate and delivering the permit to the applicant. Ex- 
cept in cases mentioned in this regulation and regulation XVI, no permit will be 
granted by any local special agent. 

WHEN TRADE STORE MAY BE AUTHORIZED IN SUPPLY DISTRICT. 

XVIII. Upon the request of the general commanding department, the proper 
supervising special agent may authorize the establishment of one or more trade 
stores in any city or town of a supply district, under the same regulations as 
trade stores are established in trade districts, and subject to military orders ; but 
the authority to establish any such store may be revoked, and the store discon- 
tinued by the supervising special agent, whenever the public interest may 
require it. 

WHEN PRODUCTS MAY BE BROUGHT TO MARKET, AND ON WHAT CONDITIONS 
SUPPLIES MAY BE TAKEN HOME. 

XIX. After any trade or supply district shall have been established, loyal 
and well-disposed persons residing therein may bring their products to market, 
unless prohibited by regulation, rule, or military order, and may be permitted 
by the proper collector or surveyor, on payment of prescribed fees, to sell the 
same for money other than gold or silver, and to take back to their respective 
homes so much of the proceeds of products so sold in individual, family, or plan- 
tation supplies, as shall be certified by the local special agent nearest to the 
residence of such person to be necessary for the use or consumption of the indi- 
vidual, fiimily, or plantation, for a period not exceeding two months next ensuing, 
if residing within the limits of a trade district, or one month if within the limits of 
a supply district ; and any attempt to take back more than the quantity so cer- 
tified will debar the party all further privilege to bring products to market or to 
trade. 

PRODUCTS MAY BE PURCHASED UNDER PRESCRIBED CONDITIONS. 

XX. All proper and loyal persons may apply in the prescribed form to the 
proper supervising special agent, or an assistant special agent designated by him. 



TRADE REGULATIONS. 45 

for authority to purchase, for money other than gold or silver, or to bring out, 
if raised or already purchased by applicant, any of the products of the country 
within the lines of national military occupation in his agency, except when pro- 
hibited by order of the general commanding department or other special military 
order, and to transport the same to market ; and, on making and filing with such 
agent an affidavit, in the prescribed form, and executing a bond with penalty 
and sureties to be approved by said agent, and conditioned that he will pay or 
secure all fees required by regulations, that he will not purchase products at any 
place other than that named in the authority, or engage directly or indirectly in 
prohibited trade, and that no military, naval, or civil officer or person prohibited 
by law or by order of the President, or of military or naval commanders having 
proper authority, from being interested in the property purchased by him, shall 
be so interested therein, the supervising special agent, or assistant special agent 
designated by him, if he deems it expedient, may authorize the proper officer to 
permit, on payment or security of the prescribed fees, the purchase and trans- 
portation of products as applied for, except articles prohibited. Upon presen- 
tation of such authority to any officer named in regulation VI, he may issue a 
permit for the purchase, transportation, and sale of products specified, in pursu- 
ance of the terras of the authority ; but before delivering it, he will require the 
prescribed fees to be paid, or a bond therefor to be executed to the United 
States, with penalty and sureties approved by him, conditioned that the fees for 
each shijiment made under the permit shall be paid to him or some other proper 
officer at the time or within ten days after such shipment shall be made ; and 
that immediately after the making of any shipment by land or water under the 
permit, notice of such shipment shall be forthwith given to the officer issuing the 
permit, which notice shall specify the date and place of shipment, and contain 
or be accompanied by a description of the property and the marks thereon, and 
a statement of its destination and the route thereto ; and that upon its arrival at 
any port where there is an officer of customs, a similar report shall be forthwith 
made to him. If any person obtaining a permit, and paying the fees therefor, 
shall purchase or transport no merchandise under the same or a less quantity 
than is permitted, the fees paid, or the proper proportion thereof, shall be refunded 
on application and due showing to the proper supervising special agent. 

Any neglect on the part of the person permitted to purchase and transport, or 
of any one acting for him, to comply with regulations and local rules, or with 
the conditions of the bond to the permit officer, shall work immediate forfeiture 
of all rights under the authority or permit, and any property purchased or trans- 
ported under the same after such neglect shall be forfeited to the United States. 

CONDITIO.\S UPON WHICH PERMITS TO PURCHASE PRODUCTS MAY BE ISSUED. 

XXII. Every permit to purchase or sell cotton, tobacco, or other merchandise 
within any place or section in a State heretofore declared in insurrection, after 
commercial intercourse therewith shall have been permitted by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, and every permit to transport the same thereto, therein, or therefrom, 
shall clearly define the character and quantity of the merchandise so permitted 
to be sold, purchased, or transported, and the place or section within which the 
same may be purchased or sold, and to and from which the same may be trans- 
ported ; and each person shall, before receiving such permit, make affidavit that 
he is in all respects loyal and true to the government of the United States ; that 
he will faithfully conform to the proclamations and orders of the President of 
the United States, and of the military governors and generals exercising 
authority under him, and to departmental regulations authorized by law ; 
and that he will at all times, by his conduct and conversation, and by every 
other means he can properly use, aid in suppressing the rebellion and restoring 
obedience to the Constitution and laws of the United States. 



4Q TRADE REGULATIONS. 



TRANSPORTATION OF, OR PAYMENTS IN COIN OR BULLION STRICTLY PROHIBITED. 

XXIT. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section heretofore 
declared to be in insurrection is absolutely prohibited, except for military pur- 
poses, and under military orders, or under the special license of the President. 
And no payment of gold or silver or foreign bills of exchange shall be made for 
cotton or other merchandise within any such State or section. All cotton or other 
merchandise purchased in any such State or section, to be paid for therein, 
directly or indirectly, in gold or silver, or foreign bills of exchange, shall be for- 
feited to the United States. 

LIMITATION AND REVOCATION OF AUTHORITIES, CERTIFICATES, AND PERMITS. 

XXIII. Authorities to purchase products, unless renewed, and all certificates 
of local special agents recommending permits for transportation, shall expire 
thirty days after date. Permits for transportation shall expire ten days after 
date ; and all authorities, certificates, and permits, will be liable to revocation by 
the Secretary of the Treasury, or the proper supervising special agent, as the 
public interests may require. 

sutlers' PERMITS, HOW OBTAINED AND UPON WHAT CONDITIONS. 

XXIV. Permits will be granted to sutlers' to transport to the regiments sut- 
lered by them such articles as they are authorized to sell, free of the five per 
cent, fee ; but no permit will be granted to a sutler except on presentation to the 
proper permit officer of the original certificate of his appointment from the com- 
manding officer of his regimeiiL, countersigned by the division commander thereof, 
and an application and affidavit in the form prescribed. Transportation shall 
not be permitted to any sutler for an amount of goods exceeding $2,500 per 
month ; nor for over two months' supply at one time ; nor for any goods except 
such as he is by law and War Department orders allowed to deal in. 

SUPPLIES MOVING UNDER MILITARY ORDERS OR UNDER CONTRACT. 

XXV. Supplies and other property belonging to the United States for the 
use of the army or navy, moving under military or naval orders, are excepted 
from the operation of these regulations. Supplies for the army or navy, fur- 
nished under contract, will be permitted free of charge, upon the certificate of the 
proper military or naval officer that such supplies are required and are to be 
shipped in fulfilment of an actual existing contract with the government. 

RESTRICTED DISTRK^rS, NOT DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, TO WHICH GOODS 

MUST BE PERMITTED. 

XXVI. In order to prevent, under the pretence of legitimate trade, the con- 
veyance of supplies which there is reason to believe are ultimately intended for 
persons in rebellion against the government, or for places under the control of 
insurgents, and to prevent undue accumulation of goods at points in dangerous 
proximity to districts under control of insurgents, transportation of any goods, 
wares, or merchandise, without the permit of a duly authorized officer of this 
department, is prohibited to any place on the south side of the Potomac river, or 
to any place on the north side of the Potomac and south of the Washington and 
Anna})olis railroad, or on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake, or on the south 
side of the Ohio river bodow Wheeling, except Louisville ; or on the west side of 
the Mississippi river below the mouth of the Des Moines, except St. Louis. 

CONDITIONS UPON WHICH GOODS TO RESTRICTED DISTRICTS MAY BE PERMITTED* 

XXVII. Permits for shipment of goods into districts or places with which 
commercial intercourse is restricted, but which have not been declared to be in 



TRADE REGULATIONS. 47 

insurrection, may be granted by collectors or surv^eyors of customs, or other 
specially authorized officers of the department located near the point of destina- 
tion, in confortniiy with regulations and local rules ; and collectors or surveyors 
at any other port or place, when applied to by parties wishing to make ship- 
ments into such districts or places, if satisfied of the loyalty of such parties and 
the good faith of the proposed transaction, may furnish certificates to that effect, 
which will be received as sufficient evidi'nce on those points by the collector, 
surveyor, or other proper officer near the point of destination, to whom applica- 
tion for permits will be made by the shipper, and by whom, on compliance with 
regulations and local rules, such permits will be granted ; and all questions of 
detention or seizure of goods en route to points above indicated will be decided 
by the collector or surveyor at the last port to be passed before entering a 
restricted district. Any information touching the character of any goods or 
transaction in the possession of any officer of this department likely to be useful 
in such decisions should be promptly forwarded to the officer on whom rests the 
decision or who grants the permits, and also to the Secretary. 

NO VESSEL OR OTHER VEHICLE SHALL CARRY GOODS L\TO, OR PUT OFF GOODS 
IN, RESTRICTED DISTRICTS WITHOUT PERMIT. 

XXVIII. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle, used for transportation from any 
place in the loyal States, shall carry goods, wares, or merchandise into any place, 
section, or State not declared in insurrection, but with which commercial inter- 
course has been or may be restricted, without the permit of a duly authorized 
officer of the Treasury Department, application for which permit may be made 
to such authorized officer near the point of destination as may suit the conven- 
ience of the shipper. Nor shall any vessel, boat, or other craft, or vehicle used 
for transportation, put off any goods, wares, or merchandise, at any place other 
than that named in the permit or clearance as the place of destiaatioa of such 
goods, wares, and merchandise. 

BOATS ON AVESTERN WATERS MUST PRESENT MANIFEST AND CLEARANCE. 

XXIX. Before any boat or vessel running on any of the western waters south 
of Louisville or St. Louis, or other waters within or adjacent to any State or sec- 
tion, commercial intercourse with which now is, or may hereafter be, restricted as 
aforesaid, shall depart from any port where there is a collector or surveyor of cus- 
toms, there shall be exhibited to the collector or surveyor, or such other officer as 
may be authorized to act in his stead, a true manifest of its entire cargo, and a clear- 
ance obtained to proceed on its voyage; and when freights are received on board at 
a place where there is no collector or surveyor, as hereinafter provided in regu- 
lation XXX, then the same exhibit shall be made and clearance obtained at the 
first port to be passed where there is such an officer, if required by him, and 
such vessel or boat shall be reported and the manifest of its cargo exhibited to 
the collector or surveyor of every port to be passed on the trip where there is 
such an officer, if required by him ; but no new clearance shall be necessary 
unless additional freights shall have been taken on board after the last clearance. 
Immediately on arriving at the port of final destination, aud before discharging 
any part of the cargo, the manifest shall be exhibited to the surveyor of such 
port, or other officer authorized to act in his stead, whose approval for landing 
the cargo shall be indorsed on the manifest before any part thereof shall be dis- 
charged ; and the clearance and shipping permits of all such vessels and boats 
shall be exhibited to the officer in command of any naval vessel or military post 
whenever such officer may require it. 

AGENCY AIDS WILL BE APPOINTED ON CARS AND BOATS. 

XXX. To facilitate trade, and to guard against improper transportation, 
agency aids will be appointed by the proper supervising special agent, or under 



48 TRADE REGULATIONS. 

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his direction by an assistant special agent, from time to time, on cars, vessels, 
and boats wben desired by owners, agents, or masters thereof, which aids will 
have free carriage on the respective cars, vessels, and boats on which they are 
placed, and will allow proper way freights to be taken on board Avithout per- 
mit, keeping a statement thereof, and reporting the same to the iirst officer to be 
passed oti the trip who is authorized to grant the permit desired, from whom a 
permit therefor must be obtained, or the goods shall be returned to the shipper 
under his direction. No permit will be granted for transportation into or within 
any State or district under restriction, or declared in insurrection, except on 
cars, vessels, and boats carrying such aids, or by private conveyance specified 
in the permit, or on boats, vessels, or cars bonded not to receive anything on 
board for transportation during the trip, nor to land or discharge anything at any 
point except that of ultimate destination without proper permis. 

CONDITIONS 0\ WHICH CLEARANCES AND PERMITS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM 
PORT NOT BLOCKADED TO PORT OPENED BY PROCLAMATION. 

XXXI. Boats and vessels may be cleared and merchandise not prohibited may 
be permitted, from any port which has not been blockaded to any port which 
has been blockaded but opened by proclamation, upon payment of such fees 
only as were chargeable therefor before the blockade was declared, but subject 
to regulations XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, and XL, and 
upon giving bond not to land or discharge any of such merchandise at any in- 
termediate point, except under permit authorized by these regulations. But no 
goods, wares, or merchandise shall be shipped or transported from or out of siich 
opened port, except under permits granted upon compliance with regulations and 
local rules, and payment of the fees prescribed in regulation XLII. 

APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS TO BLOCKADED PORTS, HOW MADE. 

XXXII. Applicants for permits to ship to any port or place affected by the 
existing blockade, but occupied by United States forces, must present, with their 
application, a certificate from the Department of War, or D>^partment of the 
Navy, either dire'ctly or through a duly authorized officer, that the articles are 
required for military or naval purposes, and a request that the transportation of 
the same may be permitted, together with invoices in duplicate of the articles 
to be permitted, specifying their character, quantity, value, and destination. On 
receiving such certificate and request and duplicate invoices the Secretary of the 
Treasury, or some officer specially authorized by him, will transmit to the pro- 
per officer one of the invoices, and direct the permitting of the transportation 
requested, and forward the other invoice to the assistant or local special agent 
at the ])ort or place to which the goods are to be permitted. The assistant or 
local special agent will, in all cases, on the arrival of any articles claimed to 
have been permitted, examine and compare such articles with the duplicate in- 
voice ; and in case of any excess or evasion of the permit, he will seize the 
whole shipment, and report the facts forthwith to the supervising special agent, 
that uroceedings may be taken for their forfeiture under the act of July 13, 1861, 
May'20, 1862, and March 12, 1863. 

, LICENSES MAY BE GRANTED BY CONSULS TO BLOCKADED PORTS REOPENED. 

XXXIII. Where ports heretofore blockaded have been opened by the proc- 
lamation of the President, license will be granted by the United States consuls, 
on application b}' the proper parties, to vessels clearing from foreign ports to the 
ports so opened, upon satisfactory evidence that the vessel so licensed will con- 
vey no person, property, or information contraband of war, either to or from said 
ports, which license shall be shown to the collector of the port to which the 
vessel is bound, and if required to auy officer in charge of the blockade. And 



TRADE REGULATIONS, 49 

oil leaving any port so opened, the vessel must have a clearance from the col- 
lectoi-, according to law, showing no violation of the conditions of the license. 
Any violation of the conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of 
the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from entering 
the United States for any purpose during the war. 

CLEARANCES FROM DOMESTIC PORTS MAY BE GRANTED. 

XXXIV. Vessels clearing from domestic ports to any of the ports so opened 
will apply to the custom-house officers of the proper ports, in the usual manner, 
for licenses or clearances under the regulations heretofore established. 

BONDS MAY BE REQl'IRED IN CKRTAIN CASES. 

XXXV. Whenever application is made to a collector, or surveyor authorized 
to grant it, for a perjnit, license, or clearance, for either a foreign or domestic 
port, if for satisfactory reasons he shall deem it necessary to prevent the cargo 
of the vessel from being used in affording aid or comfort to any person or par- 
ties in insurrection against the authority of the United States, he shall require 
a bond to be executed by the master or owner of the vessel, in a penalty equal 
to the value of the cargo, and with sureties to the satisfaction of such collector 
or surveyor, conditioned that the said cargo shall be delivered at the destination 
for which it is cleared or permitted, and that no part thereof shall be used in 
affording aid or comfort to any person or parties in insurrection against the au- 
thority of the United States, with the knowledge or consent or connivance of 
the owner or shipper thereof, or with the knowledge, consent, or connivance of 
the master of the vessel on which the same may be laden, or of other persons 
having control of the same, until after delivery to the proper consignee, and the 
sale or other disposition, by him in good faith, of said cargo. 

CLEARANCES MAY BE REFUSED IN CERTAIN CASES. — VESSELS MAY BE SEIZED. 

XXXVI. Collectors and surveyors will refuse clearances and permits to all 
vessels, or other vehicles, whether with or without cargo, destined for a foreign 
or domestic port, whenever they shall have satisfactory reason to believe that 
such vessels or their cargoes, or any part thereof, whatever may be their osten- 
sible destination, are intended for ports or places in possession or under control 
of insurgents against the United States. And if any vessel or other vehicle for 
which a clearance or permit shall have been refused as aforesaid shall depart, 
or attempt to depart, for a foreign or domestic port, without being duly cleared 
or permitted, such collector, or surveyor, or the supervising special agent, or 
assistant special agent, shall cause such vessel or vehicle to be seized and de- 
tained, and proceedings to be instituted for the forfeiture to the United States 
of such vessel or other vehicle, with her tackle, apparel, furniture, and cargo. 

MERCHANDISE, IN WHATEVER LOCALITY, LIABLE TO REACH INSURGENTS 

OWNER TO GIVE BOND. 

XXXVII. When any collector, surveyor, supervising, assistant, or local 
special agent, charged with the execution of these regulations, and the laws au- 
thorizing them, shall find within his proper limits any goods, wares, or merchan- 
dise which, in his opinion, founded on satisfactory evidence in writing, are in 
danger of being transported to insurgents, he may require the owner or holder 
thereof to give reasonable security that they shall not be transported to any 
place under insurrectionary control, and shall not in any way be used to give 
aid or encouragement to the insurgents. 

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50 - TRADE EEGULATIONS. 

IF NO SECURITY GIVEN, GOODS TO BE TAKEN POSSESSION OF. 

If the required security be not given, such officer sliall promptly state the 
facts to the United States marshal for the district within which such goods ai"e 
situated ; or if there be no United States marshal, then to the commander of a 
near military post, whose duty it shall be to take possession thereof, and hold 
them for safe keeping, reporting the facts promptly to the Secretary of the 
Treasury, and awaiting instructions. 

PROHIBITED ARTICLES. 

XXXVIII. No clearance or permit will be granted for the shipment of pro- 
hibited articles, viz : cannon, mortars, fire-arms, pistols, bombs, grenades, pow- 
der, saltpetre, sulphur, balls, bullets, pikes, swords, boarding-caps, (always ex- 
cepting the quantity of the said articles which may be necessary for the defence 
of the ship and of those who compose the crew,) saddles, bridles, cartridge-bag 
material, percussion and other caps, clothing adapted for uniforms, sail-cloth of 
all kinds, hemp and cordage, intoxicating drinks, other than beer and light na- 
tive wines, or other articles prohibited by the proper authorities, except upon 
certificate and request under regulation XXXII, or by the special direction of 
the supervising special agent sanctioned by the general commanding department 
or district into or from which the shipment is to be made. 

VESSELS 10 REPORT TO GUNBOATS OR REVENUE CUTTERS. 

XXXIX. Every vessel, on approaching a gunboat or revenue cutter, or ves- 
sel appearing to be such, before proceeding further, shall bear up and speak said 
boat or cutter, and submit to such examination as may be required. 

VIOLATIONS OF THESE REGULATIONS, HOW PUNISHED. 

XL. All vessels, boats, and other vehicles used for transportation, violating 
regulations or local rules, and all cotton, tobacco, or other merchandise shipped 
or transported or purchased or sold in violation thereof, will be forfeited to the 
United States. If any false statement be made or deception practiced in obtain- 
ing an authority, certificate, or permit under these regulations, such authority, 
certificate, or permit, and all others connected therewith or afiected thereby, will 
be absolutely void, and all merchandise purchased or shipped under them shall 
be forfeited to the United States. In all cases of forfeiture, as aforesaid, imme- 
diate seizure will be made and proceedings instituted promptly for condemna- 
tion. The attention of all officers of the government, common-carriers, shippers, 
consignees, owners, masters, conductors, agents, drivers, and other persons con- 
nected Avith the transportation of merchandise, or trading therein, is particularly 
directed to the acts of July 13, 1S61, May 20, 1SG2, and March 12, 1SG3, and 
to the orders of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy hereto appended. 

PACKAGES TO OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS, HOW SENT. 

XLI. In cases where military or naval commanders shall have ordered all 
packages sent by friends to the officers and soldiers of their command to be de- 
livered only to designated regimental or vessel officers for delivery to the proper 
parties, such packages may be transported, without collector's or surveyor's 
permits, by the Adams Express Company, or other carriers having authority 
for that purpose from the Secretary of the Treasury, on such carriers giving 
bond conditioned to render a true account of all such packages by them trans- 
ported, and to carry no goods without ])roper permits, other than such packages. 

XLII. The following fees are prescribed : 

Fee for administering oath and certifying affidavit 10 cents. 

Fee for each authority from agent 3 dollars. 

Fee for certificate of local special agent 10 cents. 



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Fee for each permit for purposes of trade 20 cents. 

Fee for each permit to purchase cotton in any insurrectionary dis- 
trict, and to transport the same to any loyal State, per pound . 4 cents. 

Fee for permit so to purchase and transport tobacco, per hhd ... 2 dollars. 

Fee for permit so to purchase or sell and transport to or from such 
district other products, goods, wares or merchandise, five* per 
centum on the sworn invoice value thereof at the place of ship- 
ment. 

Fee for each permit for individual, family, or plantation supplies, 

on every purchase over $20 and not over $50 5 cents. 

Ditto on every purchase over $50 and not over $100 10 cents. 

Ditto on every purchase over $100 ... 15 cents. 

For permits for individual, family, or plantation supplies, not over 
twenty dollars in amount, no charge is allowed, except for reve- 
nue stamps on affidavits and certificates in districts under re- 
striction ; and no charge, except five cents for permit and five 
cents for each revenue stamp on affidavit and certificate, is al- 
lowed in States declared in insurrection. When purchases are 
less than five dollars the permit officer may dispense with affida- 
vits and certificates when no ground to suspect fraud or imposition 
appears. 

INTERNAL HEVENUE STAMPS TO BE ATTACHED. 

XLIII. Internal revenue stamps are required by law to be attached to affi- 
davits, certificates and bonds, but not to any other instruments or writings 
provided for by these regulations. Stamps will be furnished by the proper 
special agents at the rates fixed by the internal revenue act, namely : 

For affidavits 5 cents. 

For certificates of local special agents or collectors and surveyors ... 5 cents. 
For bonds .... " 25 cents. 

OFFICERS TO KEEP RECORD OF PERMITS AND FEES RECEIVED, AND MAKE 

REPORTS. 

XLIV. Every officer authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to grant 
permits under these regulations shall keep in his office a recoi'd of every permit 
granted by him, showing the names of the owner, shipper and consignee, the 
place from and to which each transportation is permitted, the character and in- 
voice value of the merchandise permitted, and shall transmit to the Secretary, 
and also to the proper supervising special agent, as near as possible on the first 
day of every month, a transcript of such record ; and will also at the same time 
transmit to the supervising special agent an abstract statement showing the per- 
mits granted daily to parts of States not declared in insurrection but in which 
trade is restricted, and also showing the permits granted daily to States declared 
in insurrection, with the invoice value of the merchandise permitted, the fees 
received and the disposition made of the same, together with the names of all 
agency aids reporting to him, and the compensation paid to each. 

SUPERVISING, ASSISTANT AND LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS TO PAY OVER MONEY 

AS RECEIVED. 

XLV. All money received by each assistant or local special agent shall be 
paid over as promptly as possible to ihe supervising special agent, or to an 
assistant treasurer or designated depository as directed by him, and so that all 
receipts during each month shall be paid over before the making of his required 

* Changed to three by letter of March 21, 1864. See page — . 



52 . TRADE REGULATIONS 

monthly report ; and all money received by each supervising special agent or 
collector, surveyor, or other officer authorized to grant permits under these reg- 
ulations, shall be promptly paid over to the assistant treasurer or designated de- 
pository most convenient to him, and so that all receipts for each month shall 
be so paid over before the making of his monthly report. 

OFFICERS authorizp:d to receive ]\io\ey to report o.\ first of each 

M0.\TH. 

XLVI. Every officer authorized to receive money under these regulations 
shall transmit to the Secretary on the first of each month a report, stating in 
detail all moneys so received by him during the preceding month, and from 
what sources received, together with all expenses of his office incidental to the 
execution of these regulations; and if any money has been paid out or otherwise 
disposed of by him during the month, an account thei'eof, and by what author- 
ity, to whom, or for what purpose it was so paid or disposed of, with the vouch- 
ers therefor, A duplicate of this report and account shall at the same time be 
transmitted to the supervising special agent for the agency in which it shall be 
made, and a triplicate to the Commissioner of Customs. 

assistant special AGENTS SHALL KEEP RECORD, ETC. 

XLVII. Assistant special agents shall keep a record of all their official 
transactions, showing specifically and in detail every authority given to traders, 
(regulation XIV,) every authority for the purchase of products, (XX,) every 
inspection of trade store and the results thereof, (XV,) all appointments of 
agency- aids on cars, vessels and boats, and the compensation of each, (XXX,) 
all seizures in cases of excess or evasion of permits to blockaded ports, (XXXII,) 
all seizures or detentions of vessels or vehicles departing, or attempting to de- 
part, when clearance has been refused, (XXXVI,) all cases of security required 
when goods found in danger of being transported to insurgents, and if security 
not given, the action taken by them, (XXXVII,) all fees received for affidavits, 
authorities to traders, and for the purchase of products, and from whom, and for 
what received, (XIV, XX, XLII.) And they shall, ou the first day of every 
month, transmit to the proper supervising special agent a transcript of such 
record, and all bonds or securities received bv them under these regulations, 
(XIV, XX, XXXVII.) 

LOCAL special AGENTS SHALL KEEP A RECORD, ETC. 

XLVIII. Local special agents shall keep a record of every authority to trade or 
to purchase products presented by the holder thereof, and of all certificates given 
to traders, or for permits to purchase and transport products, (Reg. XIV;) of all 
permits for purchase and transportation of supplies from trade store, and certificates 
to buy supplies elsewhere than in trade district, (XVI;) of all permits granted 
Avliere there is no collector or surveyor within five miles of trade store, (XVII ;) 
of all certificates to persons bringing products to market and taking back sup- 
plies, (XIX ;) of all excess or evasion of permits in shipments to blockaded 
ports, and' their action thereon, (XXXII;) of all cases of bonds required of 
owners or holders of goods in danger of being transported to insurgents, and 
their action where bond not given, (XXXVII ;) of all permits under regulations 
XVI and XVII, showing all that is required by those regulations and of all fees 
required for certificates, aflidavits, and permits, (XII, XVI, XVII, XIX, XLII.) 
And they will also, as nearly as possible on the first day of every month, transmit 
to the [)roper supervising special agent a transcript of such record, and will de- 
liver to such agent all bonds or securities received by them under these regula- 
tions, (XXXVII.) 



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SUI'ERVISh\G SPECIAL AGENTS SHALL KEEP KECOPiD, ETC. 

XLIX. Supervising special agents shall keep a record of all their official 
transactions, showing fully the name and location of each local special agent and 
agency aid appointed by them, and the compensation of each, (Reg. IV;) of 
conferences with generals commanding departments and designations of trade 
and supply districts, (IX, X;) of all authorities given for trade stores, stating 
the date, name of trader, locality, and amount of goods authorized, (XIV;) of 
the inspection of trade stores and the results, (XV ;) of all trade stores author- 
ized in any city or town of a supply district, the date, name of trader, and amount 
of goods authorized, and of the discontinuance of any such store, (XVIII;) of 
all authorities given for the purchase of products, to whom given, and the locality 
where purchases are to be made, (XX ;) of all revocations of authorities, certifi- 
cates, and permits, (XXIII ;) of all information touching any goods or transac- 
tions given to other officers of the department, (XXVII ;) of all appointments 
of agency aids upon cars, vessels, and boats, (XXX ;) of all seizures and deten- 
tions of vessels or vehicles departing, or attempting to depart, after clearance 
has been refused, (XXXVI;) of all secimties required and received of owners 
or holders of goods in danger of being transported to insurgents, and of their 
action if security was not given, (XXXVII.) And on the first day of every 
month, as nearly as possible, they shall transmit to this department a transcript 
of such record for the previous month, together with a copy of the transcripts of 
records and a statement of all bonds and securities received by them from assist- 
ant and local special agents. 

EEGULATlOiNS SHALL SUPERSEDE ALL OTHERS. 

L. These regulations shall supersede those of March 31, 1863, and all others 
conflicting herewith, affecting commercial intercourse with States declared in 
insurrection ; and all permits hereafter granted by any officer of the Treasury 
Department will be granted in pursuance of them and of the local rules author- 
ized by them, or by virtue of authority hereafter given by the Secretary of the 
Treasury ; but all permits granted and acts done in pursuance of former regula- 
tions shall be valid and effectual until the 15th day of October, 1S63, unless the 
regulations shall have been sooner received and made known at the place of such 
permits or acts. 



REGULATIONS 



PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOR THE GOVERN- 
MENT OF THE SEVERAL SPECIAL AGENTS AND AGENCY AIDS APPOINTED 
IN PURSUANCE OF THE ACT OF 1-2TH MARCH, 1863, ENTITLED "AN ACT 
TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION OF ABANDONED PROPERTY, AND 
FOR THE PREVENTION OF FRAUDS IN INSURRECTIONARY DISTRICTS 
WITHIN THE UNITED STATES." 

TERRITOEY DIVIDED INTO DISTRICTS CALLED SPECIAL AGENCIES. 

I. The teiritoiy of the United States designated as in insurrection against the 
lawful government of the United States by the proclamation of the President, 
July 1, 1862, to which special agents have been assigned to receive and collect 
abandoned and captured property, is divided into districts called special agencies, 
numerically designated and described as follows, viz : 

The first special agency comprises the district of the United States west of 
the Alleghany mountains, known as the valley of the Mississippi, and extending 
southward so as to include so much of the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Ar- 
kansas, and Louisiana, as is or may be occupied by national forces operating 
from the north. 

The second special agency comprises the State of Virginia, and so much of 
"West Virginia as lies east of the Alleghany mountains. 

The third special agency comprises the State of North Carolina. 

The fourth special agency comprises the States of South Carolina, Georgia, 
and Florida. 

The fifth special agency comprises the States of Texas and Louisiana, and so 
much of the States of Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi as is or may be within 
the lines of the national forces operating from the south. 

If additional special agencies shall be established they will be numerically 
designated in the order of their establishment. And if the boundaries of agen- 
cies already established shall be changed, due notice thereof will be given. 

DESIGNATION OF AGENTS. 

II. Supervising special agents and assistant special agents will be appointed 
by the Secretary of the Treasury, and local special agents and agency aids will 
be appointed by supervising special agents, or under their direction by assistant 
special agents, subject to the approval of the Secretary, to carry into effect the 
said act and these regulations. 

AGENTS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO COLLECT AND RECEIVE ALL ABAN- 
DONED PROPERTY. 

III. Supervising and assistant special agents are authorized and directed to 
receive and collect all abandoned and captured property found Avithin their re- 
spective agencies and within the lines of military occupation by the United 
States forces, except such as has been used or was intended to be used for waging 
or carrying on war against the United States, viz : arms, ordnance, ships, steam- 
boats, or other water craft and their furniture, forage, military supplies, and 
munitions of war. 

ABANDONED AND CAPTURED PROPERTY. 

IV. Abandoned property is of two descriptions : First, that which has been 
or may be deserted by the owners; and second, that which has been or may be 



REGULATIONS. 55 

voluutarilj abandoned by the owners to the civil or military authorities of the 
United States. 

Captured property is that which has been or may be seized or taken from 
hostile possession by the military or naval forces of the United States. 

SPECIAL AGENTS WILL COLLECT AND RECEIVE PROPERTY, AND MAKE AND KEEP 
A TRUE RECORD AND ACCOUNT OF EXPENSES. 

V. Supervising and assistant special agents will exercise due diligence in re- 
ceiving and collecting, within the agency to which they have been respectively 
assigned, all abandoned and captured property, and u^Don taking possession of 
any such property will immediately make and keep a full and correct record of 
all the facts or information in regard to each case or lot known or accessible to 
them, including, as nearly as possible, the following : the character and quantity 
of the property received or collected ; where captured, or found or received as 
abandoned; under what circumstances ; by whom owned or alleged to be owned; 
noting, where practicable, the name and address of one or more truthful residents 
of the neighborhood acquainted with the pi'operty and the owner or claimant 
thereof, and any statements they may make in connection therewith ; by whom 
such property was captured or abandoned ; by whom received or collected ; from 
whom received ; all names, marks, signs, or devices, (whether distinct, indistinct, 
or partially erased,) upon such property ; together with all other information 
which may in any way serve to identify or make known the history of any par- 
ticular lot, or to trace the same, or the proceeds thereof, from the earliest period 
possible to its final disposition. 

They will also charge against each lot and keep a true and detailed account 
in triplicate of each item of expense incurred in its collection, transportation, 
care, and sale ; or where two or more lots are treated together, a fair and just 
proportion against each, as well as all fees due in any way to the government 
thereon. 

One copy of this record will be promptly transmitted to the supervising special 
agent, to whom or to whose order the property so received and collected will be 
delivered, another to the Secretary of the Treasury, and the third will be re- 
tained by the assistant special agent? for their files. 

AGENTS Wn,L RECEIVE VOLUNTARILY ABANDONED PROPERTY, AND GIVE RE- 
CEIPTS AND TAKE STIPULATIONS. 

VI. Supervising and assistant special agents will receive within their respec- 
tive agencies any property from persons who offer voluntarily to abandon the 
same, and shall give a receipt therefor to the person so abandoning it, or to his 
or her agent, in the following form : 

Received of , of the county of , in the State of 

estimated at $ , claimed by , as the owner thereof, and numbered as 

follows : 

; which, as special agent of the Treasury Department, at the request 

of 

I have receivedas abandoned property, to be forwarded to 

, and disposed of in accordance with the act of Congress approved 

March 1-2, 18G3. 

And siiall make three copies of said receipt, of which he shall send one to the 
Secretary of the Treasury, one to the supervising special agent, and keep 
one for his files ; and in all cases of so receiving voluntarily abandoned property, 



56 REGULATIONS. 

the agent sliall require from the owner or person so abandoning it a statement 
and stipulation in triplicate, in the following form : 

, special agent of the Treasury Department, has this day 

received from me as abandoned property 



marked and numbered as follows : 

which the said , has received 

at my request, to be transported to the special agent of the government in the city of 

, appointed to receive and dispose of such property, subject to 

the deductions prescribed by the act approved March 12, 1>'6"2, and the fees designated by 
the XIV regulation prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, September 11, 1863. 

And I hereby acquit and discharge the said , and 

all other officers of the government, from all personal liability on account of the said property, 
except such as may result from an unfaithful discharge of their duties in transporting or dis- 
posing of it. 

And in case of any loss or damage to the said property in its transportation or otherwise, 
neither the government of the United States nor any of its agents shall be held responsible 
therefor. 

A record of all property so received and of the expenses incurred in con- 
nexion therewith shall be made, and copies transmitted, and the property shall be 
disposed of in the nmnner prescribed in regulation Y. 

AGENTS TO COLLECT A\D RECEIVE FROM OFFICERS AND PRIVATES, SAILORS OR 
MARINES, ABANDONED PROPERTY, AND GIVE RECEIPT. 

VII. Supervising and assistant special agents will receive and collect aban- 
doned property from any officer or private of the regular or volunteer forces of 
the United States, or any officer, sailor, or marine in the naval service of the 
United States, upon the inland waters of the United States, who may take or 
receive any such abandoned property, from persons in such insurrectionary dis- 
tricts, or have it under their control and such supervising or assistant special 
agent will, in all such cases, give a receipt therefor in the following form : 

Keceived of 



estimated at $ . 



taken or received and held by him as abandoned property in such insurrectionary district, 
and claimed to be the property of 



and turned over to me by said. 



which property I have received as agent of the Treasury Department, appointed in pursuance 
of certain acts of Congress, approved July 13, 1861, May, 20, 1862, and March 12, 1863. 
The said property to be transported and disposed of under the regulations of the Secretary 
of the Treasury prescribed in pursuance of the authority conferred on him by said acts. 

Three copies of said receipt shall be made, one of which shall be transmitted 
to the Secretary of the Treasury, one to the supervising special agent, and one 
shall be retained by the agent giving the receipt ; and a record of the property 
so collected and received shall be made, and copies transmitted, and the property 
disposed of, as directed in regulation V. 

CAPTURED PROPERTY 1\ HANDS OF OFFICERS OR OTHERS TO BE TURNED OVER 

AND RECEIPT GIVEN. 

VIII. Supervising and assistant special agents will collect and receive of any 
officer or private, or person employed in or with the regular or volunteer forces 



REGULATIONS. 57 

of the United State?, any property held by him which shall have been captured 
in any district declared to be in insurrection against the United States, except 
such as shall be required for military use of the United States forces ; and all 
property so held by them shall be received by the agent as captured property, 
leaving all questions concerning the class to which it belongs for after consider- 
ation ; and they shall also receive with such property the necessary invoices 
thereof, and all receipts, bills of lading, and other papers, documents, and 
vouchers showing title to such property or the right to the possession, control, 
or direction thereof, and such order, indorsement, or writing as the party has 
power to make, to enable such agent to take possession of such property or the 
proceeds thereof. 

And he will give to the officer, private, or person from whom any property is 
so received, a receipt in the form following : 

Eeceived of 

estimated at $ - 

captured by the forces of the United States, and claimed to be the property of. 



which property I have received as special agent of the Treasury Department, appointed in 
pursuance of certain acts of Congress, approved July 13, 1861, May 20, 1862, and March 12, 
1863. The said property to be transported and disposed of under the regulations of the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury, prescribed in pursuance of the authority conferred on him by said 
acts. 

And a record of the property so collected and received shall be made and 
copies transmitted, and the property disposed of as directed in regulation V. 

PROPKRTY REQUIRED FOR PUBLIC USE TO BE APPRAISED AND DELIVERED OVER. 

IX. When any part of the goods or property received or collected by any 
supervising or assistant special agent is demanded for public use, and a requisi- 
tion therefor is presented, signed by the general commanding department, or by 
some other officer authorized by such commander of department, the special 
agent having such property in charge shall select three competent and disinter- 
ested persons, to be approved by such officer, who shall make oath for the faith- 
ful dischai-ge of their duties, and who shall appraise said goods or property, and 
make a certificate thereof in the following form : 

The undersigned having been appointed by , supervising or 

assistant special agent, to appraise certain property alleged to have been collected or received 

as abandoned or captured by , supervising special agent or 

assistant special agent of the Treasury Department, having each of us made oath for the 
faithful discharge of our duty as such appraisers, do certify that we have carefully examined 
and appraised the following described property, to wit: 

and that said property is worth 

■Appraisers. 



f 



Which certificate shall be certified by the special agent and by the officer re- 
ceiving said property ; and the goods or property so appraised shall be delivered 
over to the officer appointed to receive it ; and the special agent shall in all such 
cases require from the officer or agent receiving said goods or property a receipt 
in the foUowino; form : 



Received of. 



alleged to have 

been collected or received by him as abandoned or captured, and which has been this day 
appraised by 

appraisers appointed with my approval, to be worth dollars, which property has 



58 REGULATIONS. 

been delivered to nic by said agent to be appropriated to tbe public use, as provided in the 
second section of the act of Congress, approved March 1'2, 18G3, entitled "An act to provide 
for the collection of abandoned property, and the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary 
districts within the United States. 

And ho shall keep a record of all expenses incurred on account of said prop- 
erty ; and if he be an assistant special agent, he shall promptly transmit a full 
report of such appraisal proceedings and copies of all papers in the case, as pre- 
scribed and directed in regulation V. 

DISPOSITION OF PERISHABLE PROPERTY AMD SUCH AS CAMNOT BE TRANSPORTED. 

Ji. In all cases where pi-operty of a perishable nature, whether captured or 
abandoned, shall be collected or received by the proper agents of this depart- 
ment, and its immediate sale is recjuired by the interest of all concerned, such 
agent shall, where practicable, forward it without delay to the nearest place des- 
ignated by the Secretary or by regulation as a place of sale within a loyal State, 
consigned to the proper officer of this department, who shall forthwith cause it 
to be sold at auction to the highest bidder ; all such shipments to be accompa- 
nied by a stateinent as required by regulation V. 

If, from the character of the property, it should be impracticable so to trans- 
port it, the agent shall cause the same to be appraised by three disinterested 
persons, and to be sold at public auction, and promptly transmit a full report, as 
prescribed by regulation V, together with the certificate of appraisal, taken in 
triplicate, and the account of sales, and hold the proceeds subject so the direc- 
tion of the supervising special agent for that agency. 

HOUSE FURNITURE AND FAMILY EFFECTS. 

XI. In case of furniture, family pictures, equipage, clothing, or household 
effects, abandoned or captured, and collected or received by special agents, they 
will cause the prescribed record thereof to be made and transmitted, and will 
store such property on the premises where found, whenever it can be done with 
safety ; otherwise they will cause it to be securely stored and properly marked 
and numbered, and report the facts to the supervising special agent, and await 
further directions. If left on the premises they will take a receipt therefor from 
the agent, or person in possession, and transmit the same with the record. 
When such property cannot be safely left on the premises or stored with safety 
and due regard to economy, the special agent in charge shall cause the same to 
be appraised, disposed of, and reported, as provided in regulation X, as to un trans- 
portable property. In case such property is in use at hospitals, or for any mili- 
tary pui-pose, they Avill cause such property to be appraised and treated as prop- 
erty required for public use, as directed in regulation IX. 

SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS MAY CONTRACT FOR COLLECTING AND DELIVERY 
OF PROPERTY BY OTHER PARTIES. 

XII. When property is liable to be lost or destroyed in consequence of its 
location being unknown to the special agents, or from other causes, and parties 
propose, for compensation, to collect and deliver it into the hands of such agents at 
points designated by them, supervising special agents may contract, on behalf of 
the United States, for the collection and delivery to them of such property in their 
respective agencies, on the best possible terms, not exceeding twenty-five per cent, 
of the proceeds of the property, which percentage must be full compensation for all 
expenses, of whatever character, incurred in collecting, preparing, and delivering 
such property at the points designated. Prior to any such contract being made, 
the party proposing must submit in writing a statement of the kind and amount 
of property proposed to bo collected, the locality whence to be obtained, and all 
the facts and circumstances connected with it, particularly as to its ownership. 



REGULATIONS. 59 

And any contract made in pursuance of this regulation must be in writing, and 
restricted to the collection and delivery of particular lots at named localities ; 
or, when circumstances clearly justify it, to the general collection and delivery 
of all abandoned property in limited districts not greater in any case than one 
parish or county, and not more than one district to be assigned to one contractor. 

BOND TO BE GIVEN BV^ CONTRACTOR INDEMNIFYING THE GOVERNMENT, 

Before payment to any contractor under any contract made in pursuance of 
this regulation, he shall execute a bond, with penalty equal to the amount stipu- 
lated to be paid to him, and with sureties satisfactory to the supervising special 
agent, indemnifying the United States against all claims to the property deliv- 
ered on account of damages by trespass, or otherwise occasioned by the act or 
connivance of the contractor, and against all claims that may arise on account 
of expenses incurred in the collection, preparation, and transportation of said 
property to the points designated in said contract. 

WHEN LARGER PERCENTAGE SEEMS TO BE PROPER, AGENT TO REFER THE 
CASE TO THE SECRETARY. 

Should a case arise in the opinion of the supervising special agent justifying 
the payment of a larger percentage than one-quarter of the proceeds of the 
property, he will make a statement of the facts and circumstances and the 
reasons in his opinion justifying such additional allowance, and refer the same 
to the Secretary for instructions. 

LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS AND AGENCY AIDS TO BE APPOINTED. 

And for the purpose of getting possession of and transporting to market as 
much of tlie captured and abandoned property as possible within the lines of 
the military forces of the United States, supervising special agents, or assistant 
special agents under their direction, Avill appoint and employ in their respective 
agencies, at such per diem compensation as may be judged proper, subject to 
approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, such local special agents and agency 
aids as may be necessary therefor, instructing them fully as to the execution of 
the duties respectively assigned to them. 

AGENTS NOT TO RELEASE PROPERTY, OR PERMIT ITS REMOVAL, OR GRANT PER- 
SONAL FAVORS, OR INCUR LIABILITIES NOT AUTHORIZED BY REGULATIONS. 

XIII. No property collected or received as captured or abandoned under the 
act of March 12, 1863, shall be released by any agent, except by special au- 
thority from the Secretary of the Treasury, to any persons claiming ownership 
of such property; nor shall any permit be given by such agents to individuals 
to remove such property ; nor shall any liability be incurred or assumed, or 
contract be made, on the part of the United States by such agents, except as 
authorized by these regulations. No personal favor shall in any case be 
extended to one individual or party rather than another. 

NECESSARY EXPENSES TO BE PAID. 

XIV. Supervising special agents will pay, or cause to be paid, out of the 
general fund arising from the sale of all property collected and received in their 
respective agencies, all expenses necessarily incurred in collecting, receiving, 
securing, and disposing of the same, including fees, taxes, freights, storage, 
charges, labor, and other necessary expenses, being careful to avoid all useless 
or indiscreet expenditures; and will charge each particular lot or parcel with 
the specific or proportionate amount of all such expenses as can be made specific 
or proportionate charges to each lot or parcel; and will also charge and retain 



60 . EEGULATIONS 

out of the proceeds of each lot or parcel one and one-half per centum thereof 
for the payment of such expenses connected with the collection, transportation, 
and sale, or other disposition thereof, as cannot be made specific or proportionate 
charges against each lot or parcel, or are not otherwise provided for, such as 
rents, compensation to clerks, or other employes, auctioneers, printing, and 
advertising, a carefully stated account of which will be kept by such agents, 
showing in detail all expenses paid out of this fund arising from such charge ; 
and, unless unavoidably prevented, they will take vouchers for all expenditures 
made under this regulation, and transmit the same with their accounts. Of the 
balance, if any, of said one and one-half per cent, remaining after defraying 
said expenses the several supervising special agents may retain, as compensation 
for extra care and responsibility, a snm not exceeding one-half of one per cent., 
and with the remainder, if any, may reward extra services in collection and 
care of property rendered by agents and others. 

PROPERTY TO BE TRANSPORTED TO LOYAL STATES AND SOLD AT AUCTION. 

XV. All property collected and received, other than such as is described in 
regulations X and XI, and such as may be appropriated to public use, shall 
be transported to such places in the loyal States as shall be designated by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, as places of sale, consigned to the supervising special 
agent of the agency in which it is collected or received, or to such other person 
as shall be specially authorized by the Secretary to receive the same, and shall 
there be sold by such supervising special agent, or other person, at public auc- 
tion, to the highest bidder, for tJnited States notes, pursuant to notice previ- 
ously published of the time and place of sale. 

SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS TO MAKE REPORT. 

XVI. Each supervising special agent or other person, as aforesaid, shall make 
a full record of each lot or parcel of property coming to his possession, in the 
manner prescribed by regulation V, and report the same, and all sales or other 
disposition thereof, made by him, rendering a monthly account current of all his 
transactions to the Secretary, accompanying the same with receipts or other 
vouchers for all moneys paid out by him. All balances remaining in his hands 
shall be deposited in the Treasury from time to time, as directed by the Sec- 
retary. 

War Department, 

Septemher 11, 1863. 
The attention of all officers and soldiers of the army of the United States, 
whether volunteer or regular, is specially directed to the Revised Regulations of 
the Secretary of the Treasury, approved by the President, dated September 11, 
1863, and superseding the regulations of March 31, 1863; and they will in all 
respects observe General Order of this department numbered eighty-eight, and 
dated jMarch 31, 1863, in regard to said Revised Regulations, as if the same 
had been originally framed and promulgated with reference to them. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 



Navy Department, 

Septevihcr 11, 1863. 
The attention of all officers, sailors and marines of the navy of the United 
States is especially directed to the Revised Regulations of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, approved by the President, dated September 11, 1863, and super- 
seding the regulations of March 31, 1863; and they will in all respects observe 



REGULATIONS. 61 

• 

the order of this department dated March 31, 1863, with regard to said Revised 
Kegulations, as if the same had been originally promulgated with reference to 
them. 

GIDEON WELLES, 

Secretary of the Navy. 



Treasury Department, 

MarcJi 21, 1S64. 
Sir : The forty-second trade regulation, series of September 11, 1863, is 
hereby so far modified, that on and after the 1st day of April next the invoice 
valuation permit fee on shipments to and from insurrectionary districts will be 
three per cent, instead of five, as therein prescribed. 

S. P. CHASE, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 
H. A. RiSLEY, Esq., 

Supervising Special Agent, Washington, D. U. 



RULES Aj^D regulations 

COXCERNING COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE ^YITH AND IN STATES AND 
PARTS OF STATES DECLARED IN INSURRECTION, THE COLLECTION, RE- 
CEIPT AND DISPOSITION OF CAPTURED, ABANDONED AND CONFISCABLE 
PROPERTY, AND THE EMPLOYMENT AND GENERAL WELFARE OF FREED- 
MEN. PRESCRIBED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. ^VITH THE 
APPROVAL OF THE PRESIDENT, IN Pt^RSUANCE OF THE SEVERAL ACTS 
OF CONGRESS IN RELATION TO THOSE SUBJECTS, AND APPENDED 
HERETO. 

Executive Mansion, 

Washington, July 30, 1864. 
The following regulations of tlie Secretary of the Treasury, having been seen 
and considered by me, are hereby apj)roved, and commercial intercourse, in the 
cases and under the restrictions described and expressed in the regulations, is 
licensed and authorized ; and all officers and privates of the regular and volun- 
teer forces of the United States, and officers, sailors and marines in the naval 
service, will observe the said regiJations and the provisions of the several acts 
of Congress appended thereto to which they relate, and will render all assistance 
not incompatible with military or naval operations, to officers and agents of the 
Treasury Department executing the same. 

ABRAHAM LIXCOLN. 



GENERAL REGULATIONS. 

These regulations, and the several acts of Congress authorizing them, shall 
be executed and carried into effect, under direction of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, by the following officers : 
A general agent, 
Supervising special agents, 
Assistant special agents, 
Local special agents, 
Agency aids. 

Officers of the customs designated by the Secretary, and 
Superintendents of freedmen. 
All officers appointed under these regulations are authorized to administer 
oaths required in the performance of their official duties. 

The general agent and the supervising and assistant special agents will be 
appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury ; local special agents and agency 
aids will be appointed by the supervising special agents or assistant special 
agents, as under regulation XXVII, subject to the approval of the Secretary. 
It shall be the duty of the general agent, under the direction of the Secretary 
of the Treasury, to cause these rules and regulations to be properly and uniformly 
enforced in all States and parts of States declared in insurrection, and all offi- 
cers and agents appointed to perform duties under them will comply with the 
instructions of the general agent in regard thereto until otherwise directed by 
the Secretary of the Treasury. 

To facilitate the execntion of the annexed regulations, insnrrectionary States 
and parts of States are hereby divided into districts called special agencies, dis- 
tinguished numerically, and described as follows: 

The first special agency comprises that part of the valley of the Mississippi 
lying west of the Alleghany mountains and east of the mouth of the Tennessee 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 63 

river, and extending southwardly to include so much of the States of Alabama, 
Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia as is, or shall be, occupied by national 
forces operating from the north. 

The second special agency comprises so much of the Mississippi valley as 
lies west of the mouth of the Tennessee river, including West Tennessee, the 
State of Arkansas, and so much of the States of Mississippi and Louisiana as is, 
or shall be, occupied by national forces operating from the north. 

The third special agency comprises so much of the States of Louisiana, Mis- 
sissippi, Alabama and tlic west part of Florida as is, or shall be, occupied by 
national forces operating from the south. 

The fourth special agency comprises the State of Texas. 

The fifth special agency comprises the south and east part of Florida, in- 
cluding Key West, the State of South Carolina, and so much of the State of 
Georgia as is, or shall be, occupied by national forces operating from the south. 

The sixth special agency comprises the State of North Carolina, excepting 
so much thereof as lies north of Albemarle sound and east of Chowan river. 

The seventh special agency comprises that section of country lying east 
of the Alleghany mountains, and extending southwardly to include so much of 
the State of North Carolina as lies north of Albemarle sound and east of Chowan 
river. 

Additional special agencies, if established, will be numerically designated in 
the order of their establishment; and if the boundaries of agencies already es- 
tablished shall be changed, due notice thereof will be given. 

Supervising special agents Avill supervise within their respective agencies the 
execution of the regulations, under the direction of the general agent, and will 
make, and from time to time change, such local rules not inconsistent with them 
as may be proper for that purpose, and temporarily suspend or qualify the 
authority to grant permits for supplies, as the public interest shall require, sub- 
ject to the approval of the general agent or of the Secretaiy of the Treasury; 
and they will confer with generals commanding departments, or, when such 
conference is impracticable, with generals commanding divisions or districts, and 
with naval ofEcers commanding within the agency under their supervision, and 
obtain, as far as practicable, their sanction to such action as may affect military 
or naval movements. 

The assistant and local special agents, agency aids and officers of the customs 
above referred to will communicate directly with the supervising special agent 
of the agency to which they may be assigned upon all questions affecting the 
discharge of their duties under the regulations. The several supervising special 
agents will reply to these communications, except where they regard thq inter- 
vention of the department necessary, when they will transmit them, and all 
papers relating to them, with such recommendations as they may think proper, 
to the Secretary of the Treasury, and will keep the department advised of their 
action in all matters pertaining to the execution of their duties. 

W. P. FESSENDEN, 

Sccrclary of the Treasury. 

Washington, July 29, 1864. 



COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE. 

Rules and regulations under the several acts of Congress jiT^ohihiting or restrict- 
ing commercial intercourse loitli and, in States and jjarts nf States declared 
to he in insurrection, and in portions of loyal States in dangerous proximity 
thereto. 

PERMITS. 

1. No goods, wares, or merchandise will be allowed to be transported to, 
from, or within any State or part of a State under restriction, or declared in in- 



64 ^ RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

sunection, except iiuder permits, certificates, and clearances, as hereinafter pro- 
vided. 

PERMIT OFFICERS. 

II. The officers of the Treasury Department to be authorized under instruc- 
tions from the Secretary to permit supplies to be transported to loyal persons 
residing in insurrectionary States or parts of States, or in restricted districts of 
loyal States with Avhich commercial intercourse has been or may be licensed by 
the President, under regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, are the sur- 
veyors of customs at Pittsburg, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Madison, Louisville, New 
Albany, Evansville, Paducah, Cairo, Quincy, St. liOuis, Nashville, Memphis, 
and Baltimore ; the collectors of customs at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, 
Georgetown, Alexandria, Beaufort in North Carolina, Port Royal in South Car- 
olina, Brownsville, and New Orleans. Other officers will bo designated to grant 
permits should the public interests require it ; and the officers above named will 
respectively grant permits to such ports, places or districts only as shall be des- 
ignated in the letter of instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury. 

INTERCOURSE BEYOND MILITARY LINES PROHIBITED, 

III. Commercial intercourse with localities beyond the lines of actual military 
occupation by the United States forces is absolutely prohibited ; and no permit 
will be granted for the transportation of any property to any place under the 
control of insurgents against the United States. 

LINES OF MILITARY OCCUPATION. 

IV. Each supervising special agent will ascertain from the published order of 
the general commanding the department or district embracing his agency, the 
lines of actual occupation by the military forces of the United States, and will 
confer with the department commander, and agree with him in writing, as to 
the place or places, within those lines in his agency, to which supplies may be 
taken for the loyal residents therein, and the aggregate amount which may be 
taken monthly to each of such places. Having so ascertained and agreed, he 
Avill promptly communicate the facts to the Secretary of the Treasury, and to 
the officers authorized to grant permits to the district so occupied. 

SUPPLY STORES. 

V. Supply stores at places agreed upon by the commanding general of the 
department and the proper supervising special agent may be established by 
such loyal persons as the supervising special agent or assistant special agents 
shall designate for that purpose. But the monthly amount agreed upon, as 
aforesaid, shall in no case be exceeded, and the maximum amount that any in- 
dividual or firm may be permitted to take there for sale shall not exceed $3,000 
per month, except in cities with a population over twenty thousand, and except 
in cases where the commanding general of the district, for military reasons, re- 
quests it to be larger, in which cases all persons trading there shall be equally 
affected thereby, and no person shall be interested in more than one store. 

APPLICATION FOR SUPPLY STORES. 

VI. Any person desiring to establish a supply store at any place above pro- 
vided may make application in writing to the proper supervising or assistant 
special agent, who shall file the application, and record the name of each appli- 
cant with the date of application, in a book to be kept by him for that purpose; 
and all favoritism in granting the authorities so applied for shall be prevented, 
as far as possible, by local rules of the proper supervising special agents. No 
application made prior to military occupation will be considered. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 65 

APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH A SUPPLY STORE. 

,18. -. 

To , special agent, agency : 

Sir : , the undersigned, make application for authority to establish a supply 

store at .'. , in county of , and State of , under the regula- 
tions prescribed July 29, 1864, by the Secretary of the Treasury, concerning commercial in- 
tercourse with and in States declared in insurrection. 
Respectfully, yours. 



AFFIDAVIT OF APPLICANT FOR SUPPLY STORE. 

Each applicant shall make and file with his application an affidavit in the 
following form : 

I , of , in the county of , 

and State of , being duly sworn, on oath or affirmation say, that I am a 

citizen of the United States, {native-horn or naturalized, as the case may be,) and that I am 
in all respects true and loyal to the government thereof; that I always have faithfully con- 
formed, and will at all times faithfully conform, to the proclamations and orders of the 
President of the United States, and the military governors and generals exercising authority 
under him, and to departmental regulations authorized by law : and that I have aided, and 
will at all times aid, by my conversation and conduct, and by every other means I can 
properly use, in suppressing the rebellion and restoring obedience to the Constitution and 
laws of the United States. 

Subscribed and sworn before me this day of , 13 

\0 AUTHORITY GRANTED WITHOUT AFFIDAVIT. 

VII. No authority to sell supplies, at any place in a State or part of State 
declared in insurrection, shall be given to any person Avho shall not accompany 
his application with the above affidavit taken before a competent officer. 

AUTHORITY FOR SUPPLY STORE, 

VIII. When authority shall be given to any person to establish a supply 
store at any place as above provided, it shall be in the following form : 

, of the county of , and 

State of , having applied to me for authority to establish a Supply 

Store at , in the county of , and State of 

, and having made and attached to application the 

prescribed affidavit, and executed a bond to the United States in a penalty and with sureties 

approved by me, I hereby authorize the said to 

establish a SUPPLY Store at , in the county of , 

and State of , and, under proper ]iermits, to transport to and sell at 

said store goods, wares, and merchandise, not prohibited, to an amount not exceeding 
dollars (S ) per month. 

This authority is given subject to revocation at any time by the supervising special agent 
of this agency. 

Dated at , this day of ,18... 

BOND OF APPLICANT FOR SUPPLY STORE. 

IX. Before the delivery of the authority above provided for, the applicant 
shall execute and deliver to the agent a bond to the United States, in a penalty 
of twice the monthly amount authorized, with sureties to be approved by such 
agent, which bond shall be in the following form : 

KNOAV ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, , 

of , as principal, and , 

of , and , of , 

as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America, in the sum of 

dollars ($ ) to be paid to the United States of America, 

for which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and 
administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and 

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66 • KULES AND EEGULATlONy. 

dated tliis day of , in the year ouo thousand eight 

hundred and 

^Yhercas tlie said has applied fur and received authority to es- 

tabish a Sltply Store at , in the county of , 

and State of , under the license of the President, and the regula- 
tions prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, July 29, 1864 — 

The coNDiTiox of the aijove obligation is such, That if the said 

shall not transport goods to any place other than such SlPPl.Y Store, 

«!or engage, directly or in<lirectly, in any prohibited trade ; and if no part of the goods trans- 
ported by shall, with knowledge or assent, or by 

connivance, be so used or disposed of as to give aid or encouragement to 

the insurgents ; and if no military, naval, or civil ofEcer, or person prohibited by law from 
trading, or receiving, or expecting profit or advantage from trade in an insurrectionary State, 
shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any sale made from said store ; and if no goods, 
wares, or merchandise are sold or disposed of at said store, or other act done by him, or by 
others acting iruder hi? anthority, in violation of any regulation of the Secretary ot the 
Treasiny, or local rule of the supervising special agent, tlieu the above obligation tube void, 
otherwise to remain in full force and etTect. 

Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of — [L. S.] 

. [i,.s.] 

. [L.S.] 

REcoRi'S OF ACTnoarrms. 

X. Records sball be kept in the office of each supervising and district 
agency, in wbicli every authority granted therein shall be recorded, with the 
locality oC the supply Srtore, the name of the party authorized, and his sureties, 
with their respective residences, the date and monthly amount of the authority, 
and the date and amount of each shipment of goods authorized. And when- 
ever a party authorized to sell, as aforesaid, shall desire to transport supplies 
to bis store, he shall file with the sujiervisingor assistant special agent, in charge 
of the 1 ecord of his anthority, an application for such supplies, with a full meni". 
randum thereof. Whereupon such agent may, if he knows no reason why lut 
should not, give the applicant a ceitiftcate in the follow'ingform : 

certificate for supplies. 

This certifies that, is duly authorized to sell supplies to loyal 

persons at , and that he may be permitted to ship to that place during 

the month of , supplies included in the annexed memorandum to the 

«,niount of $ 

The permit officer to whom this corticate is presented, if the party holding it desires to ship 
only a part of the amount named therein, will indorse upon the certificate the date and 
amount of the permit, and will give the holder a certified copy of the original certificate with . 
Lis indorsement thereon, retaining the original as his authority for the permit. 

And the officer granting a permit on the certified copy will, in like manner, indorse upon 
it the date and amount of his permit, and give a certified copy of the certificate and indorse- 
ments as certified, and so on until the amount of the original certificate is exhausted ; so that 
the stock permitted to and transported by the trader, each month, shall not exceed the amount 
above named. No permit will be granted upon this certificate after the close of the month 
of ,18 

Dated at , this day of , 18 . . . 

, Special Agent. 

To which certificate he shall annex a copy of the memorandum so filed with 
him, countersigned with his approval. 

PERMIT FOR SUPPLY STORE. 

XI. Upon presentation of the above certificate, or the certified copies thereof 
as provided, together with the application, copies, invoices, and affidavits, as 
hereinafter named, any permit officer named in regulation II may permit the 
shipment of supplies included in the memorandum annexed to the certificate, so 
that the aggregate amount of the shipments under the certificate shall not 
exceed the sum named therein. Such permit shall be made subject to the ap-- 



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67 



proval of the permit officer of the last port of shipment in a loyal State through 
which the supplies shall pass en route to their destination. 

XII. The application for permit shall be in the following form : 

APPLICATION FOR PERMIT FOR SIPPLIES. 



To : 

Sir : desire permission to transport from this port to , 

the supplies named in the invoices of which the annexed are true copies, which supplies 

were purchased by of the parties respectively indicated by the 

invoices, and are owned by , of , and consigned 

to , of , and are contained in packages, 

which packages are marked and described as follows : 



No. of packages. 


Marks. 


Description of supplies. 


Value. 











AFFIDAVIT OF APPLICANT FOll PERMIT FOR SUPPLIES. 

XIII. The original invoices shall be presented v»'ith the application, and shall 
be compared with the copies annexed thereto by the officer granting the permit 
to ship. The applicant shall annex and file, with his application for permit to 
ship, an affidavit in the following form : 

, of - . , being duly sworn, deposes and says : 

that is the ow'ncr of the goods, wares, and merchandise described 

in the invoices, true copies of which are hereto attached, and that the quantities, descriptions, 
and values of the said goods, wares, and merchandise are correctly stated in said invoices ; 
that the marks on the packages are correctly stated in the above application ; and that the 
packages contain nothing except as stated in the invoices. 

And this deponent further swears, that the goods, wares, and merchandise permitted to be 
transported upon the above application, shall not, nor shall any part thereof be transported 
or disposed of by him, or by his authority, connivance, or assent, in violation of the terms 
of the permit. 

PERMIT FOR SUPPLIES. 

XIV. If the permit officer is satisfied that no fraud has been, or is being 
practiced, he may permit the shipment so ajiplied for, in the following form : 



Port of 



This may certify, that has this day filed in my office 

an application for permit to transport from this port to , to be 

delivered to , at , by way of , 

the goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned and described in the copies of invoices 
thereof hereto attached, (each one of which is stamped with my official seal, ) which are con- 
tained in packages, and are of the aggregate value of $ , 

and are owned by , shipped by , consigned 

to 

And the said has presented with his application the original 

invoices of the said goods, wares, and merchandise, and filed in my office copies thereof, and 
made oath before me pursuant to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, and local 
rules made under them. 

Now, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority of the President of the United States, con- 
ferred on me through the Secretary of the Treasury, I do hereby authorize and permit the 

said to transport, by the route above named, the said goods, wares, 

and merchandise to 

The righ^ is reserved to revoke, suspend, or qualify this permit, at such time and place, 



68 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

and in such manner as the public interests may require ; and it will expire ten days atter date, 
and cease to have any force, except that merchandise properly shipped under it, within ten 
days, will be allowed to go to its place of destination. 

In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of this office, this 

day of one thousand eight hundred and sixty 



of Customs. 



To which permit the officer granting the same shall annex copies of the in- 
voices prescntetl with the application, except that the extension of prices need 
not be made in the copies annexed to the permit to transport, but the value of 
each lot shall be stated in the original invoices. 

ACCOUNTS OK SALES OF SUPPLIKS. 

XV. All persons authorized to sell supplies shall keep true accounts of all 
their sales, with the name and residence of each purchaser, and the date and 
amount of each sale ; and their books, inv(jices, and accounts shall at all times 
be open to the inspection of the supervising or assistant special agents. If any 
person so authorized shall violate any regulation or local rule, his authority shall 
be immediately revoked, and his stock in trade shall be seized and forfeited to 
the United States, and such steps shall be promptly taken as may be neces- 
sary to secure its condemnation by a court of competent jurisdiction. 

NO SALES EXCEPT BY PERSONS AUTHORIZED. 

XVI. No goods, wares, or merchandise shall be sold at any place in a State 
declared in insurrection, except by persons duly authorized, and none shall be 
transported from any place at which supplies are authorized to be sold, except 
under the permit of the local special agent appointed for that place. Loyal per- 
sons residing in the district of the country contiguous to the place, and within 
the lines of actual occupation by the military forces of the United States, as in- 
dicated by published order of the commanding general of the department or 
district in which it is situated, may be permitted by the local special agent to 
procure from any such store and take to their homes such individual, family, or 
plantation supplies as may be necessary for their own use, as provided in regu- 
lation XVI 11. 

FAMILY SUPPLIES. 

XVII. The permit above provided for shall be given by the local special 
agent, upon application of the bead of the family, or some person duly author- 
ized by him or her in writing, and then only on an affidavit in the following 
form : 



AFFIDAVIT OF ArPLICANT. 



State of. 



County of , i " 

I, , being duly sworn, depose 

and say that reside at , in the county of -• and 

State of , and that has resided there for years last past; 

that I am in all respects true and loyal to the jrovernment of the United States, and that 
I will in all things so deport myself, hearing true faith and allegiance thereto, and to the 

best of uiy ability protecting and'defending the same. That family consists of 

w hitc and colored jiersons ; that the supplies, invoices of which are hereto attached, 

are necessary for the use and consumption of said family during the ensuing month ; that 
no part thereof shall be sold or otherwise disposed of by - or by authority, con- 
nivance, or consent, except for the sole use and consumption of saiU family, and that, to the 
best of my knowledge and belief, no application has been made for any permit for the same 
or like supplies to any other officer or agent, and that no supplies for the same family for 
the period mentioned have been or are expected to be applied for elsewhere, or otherwise 
obtained. 

Subscribed und sworn to le'bre me this day of ]86... 



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PERMIT FOR FAMILY AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES. 

XVIII. If the local special agent is satisfied as to the truth of the affidavit 
and the good faith of the applicant, he shall permit the purchase and transpor- 
tation applied for, subject to the approval of the commander of the post, or 
such person as he shall designate for that purpose, to be countersigned upon the 
permit, which permit shall be in the following form : 

This may certify, that has this day filed in my office aa 

application and the required affidavit for the purchase of the supplies 

described in the annexed memorandum countersigned by me, the aggregate value whereof is 

$ , and for transportation thereof by way of 

to the place of residence of 

And by virtue of the authority vested in me, I do hereby permit the said 

to purchase the said supplies at , and to transport them from 

to 

This permit will expire and cease to have any force ten days after its date. 



Local Special Agent. 

Special Agency. 

Dated at , this day of ,18 . 

CERTIFICATE TO PURCHASE ELSEWHERE. 

XIX. If the applicant prefers to purchase the supplies at some place in a 
loyal State, then, instead of the above permit he shall give him a certificate in 
the following form : 

I certify that has made the prescribed affidavit and application be- 
fore me for the supplies, a memorandum whereof is hereto attached, and countersigned by 

me, the estimated value whereof is, $ , which he desires to take to his home in the 

county of , State of 

I hereby recommend any authorized permit officer to permit the transportation of said 

supplies, to an amount not exceeding! , from the port where it is applied for to his 

home aforesaid, upon presentation of this certificate, countersigned with the approval of the 
general commanding this post, or some person authorized by Lim. 

This certificate will cease to have any force thirty days after date. 

Dated at , this day of , ] 86 . . . 

Local Special Agent. 
PERMIT FOR TRANSPORTATION. 

XX. Upon presentation of this certificate so countersigned, with duplicate 
invoices of the supplies to be transported, any authorized permit officer may 
grant the permit desired, in the following form : 

In compliance with the recommendation of , local special agent at 

, approved by the proper military officer, permission is hereby granted to 

, residing at , in the county of and 

State of , to take from this port to his home aforesaid the supplies mentioned 

in the invoices hereto attached and countersigned by me. 

Dated at , this day of , 186.. 

CERTIFICATE TO BE FILED. 

XXI. The certificate upon which permits are granted, attached to copies of 
the invoices permitted, shall be filed by the officer granting the permit. 

EXCEPTED ARTICLES. 

XXII. Fresh vegetables, fruit,-', butter and eggs, ice, poultry, coal, wood, 
beef cattle, hogs, and household goods of families moving, may be permitted by 
the officers named in Regulation II to go to any military post, naval fleet, or 
vessel of the United States forces, other than within or attached to the blockade, 
without the supply store authority and certificate above required. But in such 



70 • RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

cases the permit shall be conditioned that the supplies so permitted shall be 
reported to the assistant or local special agent at such post, fleet, or vessel, if 
there be such an officer there, and if not, then to the commanding officer of the 
post, fleet, or vessel, and that the same shall be disposed of only in compliance 
with these regulations. 

sutlers' permits. 

XXIII. Permits will be granted to sutlers to transpoit to the regiments or 
post sutlered by them such articles as they are authorized to sell, free of the 
three per cent fee; but no permit will be granted to a sutler except on presenta- 
tion, to the proper permit officer, of the oi'igiml certificate of his appointment 
from the commanding officer of his regiment or post, countersigned by the 
division commander thereof, and an application and affidavit in the following 
form : 

AFFIDAVIT OF SUTLER. 

, being duly sworn, deposes and says, tbat is the 

sutler of the , duly appointed and commissioned in writing, a true 

copy of which appointment is hereto annexed; tliat there is no other person claiming to 

act as sutler to said , to the knowledge of this affiant; that no other goods, 

wares, or merchandise have been transported to said , under this commis- 
sion, except such as have been duly permitted, and that a memorandum of each shipment 
permitted is indorsed on said commission, and truly appears on the copy thereof hereto 
attached ; that no goods, wares, or merchandise transported under such permits have been 

sold to any persons except the officers or soldiers belonging to said or other 

forces of the United States, and that none of those permitted under this application shall be 
so sold. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me, 
this day of , 186... 

AMOUNT PERMITTED TO SUTLERS. 

XXIV. Transportation nuder the above regulation shall not be permitted to 
any regimental sutler for an amount of goods exceeding $2,500 per mouth ; nor 
for over two months' supply at one time ; nor for any goods except such as he 
is by law and War Department orders allowed to deal in ; nor to any post sutler 
to an amount larger than shall be stated in his commission and approved by 
the general commanding the department or division, and in such cases only one 
month's supply shall be permitted at one time. 

RESTRICTIONS ON CARRIERS. 

XXV. No vessel, boat, or other vehicle, used for transportation from any 
place in the loyal States, shall carry goods, wares, or merchandise into any 
place, section, or State not declared in insurrection, hut with which commercial 
intercourse has been or may be restricted, without the permit of a duly authorized 
officer of the Treasury Department, application for which permit may be made 
to such authorized officer near the point of destination, as may suit the conve- 
nience of the shipper. Nor shall any vessel, boat, or other craft, or vehicle used 
for transportation, put oif any goods, wares, or merchandise at any place other 
than that named in the permit or clearance as the place of destination of such 
goods, wares, and merchandise. 

BOATS ON V^'ESTERN WATERS. 

XXVI. Before any boat or vessel running on any of the w-estern waters south 
of Cairo, or other waters within or adjacent to any State or section, commercial 
intercourse with which now is, or may hereafter be, restricted as aforesaid, shall 
depart from any port where there is a collector or surveyor of customs, there 
shall be exhibited to the collector or surveyor, or such other officer as may be 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 71 

authorized to act in his stead, a true manifest of its entire cargo, and a cleai'anco 
obtained to proceed on its voyage ; and when freights are received on board at 
a place where there is no collector or surveyor, as hereinafter provided in Regu- 
lation XXVII, then the same exhibit shall be made and clearance obtained at 
the first port to be passed where there is such an officer, if required by him, 
and such vessel or boat shall be reported and the manifest of its cai'go exhibited 
to the collector or surveyor of every port to be passed on the trip, where there 
is such an officer, if required by him; but no new clearance shall be necessary 
unless additional freights shall have been taken on board after the last clearance. 
Immediately on arriving at the port of final destination, and before discharging 
any part of the cargo, the manifest shall be exhibited to the surveyor of such 
port, or other officer authorized to act in his stead, whose approval for landing 
the cargo shall be indorsed on the manifest before any part thereof shall be 
discharged ; and the clearance and shipping permits of all such vessels and 
boats shall be exhibited to the officer in command of any naval vessel or mili- 
tary post whenever such officer may require it. 

AGEMCV AIDS. 

XXVII. To facilitate trade and guard against improper transportation, agency 
aids will be appointed by the proper supervising special agent, or, under his 
direction, by an assistant special agent, from time to time, on cars, vessels, and 
boats, when desired by owners, agents, or masters thereof, which aids will have 
free carriage on the respective cars, vessels, and boats on which they are placed, 
and will allow proper way freights to be taken on bonrd without permit, keep- 
ing a statement thereof, and reporting the same to th' first officer to be passed 
on the trip who is authorized to grant the peimit desired, from whom a permit 
therefor must be obtained, or the goods shall be returned to the shipper under 
his direction. No permit will be granted for transportation into or within any 
State or district under restriction or declared in insurrection except on cars, 
vessels, and boats carrying such aids, or by private conveyance specified in the 
permit, or on boat , vessels, or cars bonded not to receive anything on board for 
transportation during the trip nor to land or discharge anything at any point 
except that of ultimate destination without proper permit. 

MERCHANDISE LrABLE TO REACH INSURGENTS — BOND REQUIRED. 

XXVIII. When any collector, surveyor, supervising, assistant, or local special 
agent, charged with the execution of these regulations and the laws authorizing 
them, shall find within his proper limits any goods, wares, or merchandise which, 
in his opinion, founded on satisfactory evidence in writing, are in danger of being 
transported to insurgents, he may require the owner or holder thereof to give 
reasonable security that they shall not be transported to any place under insur- 
rectionary control, and shall not, in any way, be used to give aid or encourage- 
ment to the insurgents. 

If the required security be not given, such officer shall promptly state the 
facts to the United States marshal for the district within which such goods are 
situated; or if there be no no United States marshal, then to the commander of 
a near military post, whose duty it shall be to take possession thereof and hold 
them for safe keeping, reporting the facts promptly to the Secretary of the Trea- 
sury, and av.-aiting instructions. 

ARTICLES PROHIBITED BY MILITARY ORDER. 

XXIX. "When any military order, issued by competent authority, shall abso- 
lutely prohibit the transportation of articles designated therein, to or within any 
State or part of State named in the order, no permit shall be granted for the 
transportation so prohibited. But when such prohibition is conditional, trans- 
portation may be permitted in accordance with the conditions named. 



72 , RULES AND REGULATIONS 



PACKAGES TO OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS. 

XXX. In cases where military or naval commanders shall have ordered all 
packages sent by friends to the officers and soldiers of their command to be de- 
livered only to designated regimental or vessel officers for delivery to the proper 
parties, such packages may be transported, without collector's or surveyor's 
permits, by the Adams Express Company, or other carriers having authority 
for that purpose from the Secretary of the Treasury, on such carriers giving 
bond conditioned to render a true account of all such packages by them trans- 
ported, and lo carry no goods without proper permits, other than such packages. 

ARMY A.\D \AVV STPPLIES. 

XXXI. Supplies and other property belonging to the United States for the 
use of the army or navy, moving under military or naval orders, are excepted 
from the operation of these regulations. Supplies for the army or navy, furnished 
under contract, will be permitted free of charge, upon the certificate of the proper 
military or naval officer that such supplies are required and are to be shipped in 
fulfilment of an actual existing contract with the government. 

COIN OR BULLroX. 

XXXII. All transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section hereto- 
fore declared to be in insurrection is absolutely prohibited, except for military 
purposes and under military orders, or under the special license of the President. 

BLOCKADED PORTS. 

XXXIII. Clearai.ces and permits to any [lort or place affected by the exist- 
ing blockade will be granted only upon the request of the Department of War 
or the Department of the Navy. Applicants must present, with their applica- 
tion, a certificate from the Department of War or Department of the Navy, either 
directly or through a duly authorized officer, that the articles are required for 
military or naval purposes, and a request that the transportation of the same 
may be permitted, together with invoices iu duplicate of the articles to be per- 
mitted, specifying their character, quantity, value, and destination. On receiving 
such certificate and request and duplicate invoices, the Secretary of the Treasury, 
or some officer specially authorized by him, will transmit to the proper officer 
one of the invoices, and direct the permitting of the transportation requested, and 
forward the other invoice to the assistant or local special agent at the port or 
place to which the goods are to be permitted, who will, in all cases, on the ar- 
rival of any articles claimed to have been permitted, examine and compare such 
article's with the duplicate invoices ; and in case of any excess or evasion of the 
permit, he will seize the whole shipment, and report the facts forthwith to the 
supervising special agent, that proceedings may be taken for their forfeiture 
under the acts of July 13, 1S61, May 20, 1862, March 12, 1863, and July 
2, 1864. 

BLOCKADED PORTS REOPENED. 

XXXIV. Where ports heretofore blockaded have been opened by proclama- 
tion of the President, licenses will be granteil by United States consuls, on ap- 
plication by the proper parties, to vessels cli^ariug from foreign ports to the ports 
so opened, upon satisfactory evidence that the vessel so licensed will convey no 
person, property, or information contraband of war, either to or from said ports, 
which license shall be shown to the collector of the port to wliich the vessel is 
bound, and if re(iuired, to any officer in charge of the blockade. And on leaving 
any port so opened, the vessel must have a clearance from the collector, accord- 
ing to law, showing no violation of the conditions of the license. Any violation 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 73 

of the couditious will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of the vessel and 
cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from entering the United States 
for any purpose during the war. 

Vessels clearing from domestic ports to any of the ports so opened will apply to 
the custom-house officers of the proper ports, in the usual manner, for permits 
and clearances under the regulations heretofore established. 

Commercial intercourse between the citizens of ports so opened and persons 
beyond the limits thereof shall be subject to the same restrictions and regulations 
as at other places in States and parts of States declared in insurrection. 

REFUSAL OF CLEARANCE. 

XXXY. Collectors and surveyors will refuse clearances and permits to all 
vessels or other vehicles laden with goods, wares, or merchandise destined for a 
foreign or domestic port, whenever they shall have satisfactory reason to believe 
that such goods, v,'ares, or merchandise, or any part thereof, whatever may be 
their ostensible destination, are intended for ports or places in possession or 
under control of insurgents against the United States. And if any vessel or 
other vehicle for which a clearance or permit shall have been refused, as afore- 
said, shall depart, or attempt to depart, for a foreign or domestic port without 
being duly cleared or permitted, such collector or surveyor, or the supervising 
special agent, or assistant special agent, shall cause such vessel or vehicle to be 
seized and detained, and proceedings to be instituted for the forfeiture to the 
United States of such vessel or other vehicle, with her tackle, apparel, furniture 
and cargo. 

BONDS FOR CLEARANCE. 

XXXVI. Whenever application is made to a collector, or surveyor authorized 
to grant it, for a permit or clearance for either a foreign or domestic port, if, for 
satisfactory reasons, he shall deem it necessary to prevent the cargo of the vessel 
from being used in affording aid and comfort to any person or parties in insur- 
rection against the authority of the United States, he shall require a bond to be 
executed by the master or owner of the vessel in a penalty equal to the^value 
of the cargo, and with sureties to the satisfaction of such collector or surveyor, 
conditioned that the said cargo shall be delivered at the destination for which it 
is cleared or permitted, and that no part thereof shall be used in affording aid 
or comfort to any person or parties in insurrection against the authority of the 
United States with the knowledge or consent or connivance of the owner or 
shipper thereof, or with the knowledge, consent, or connivance of the master of 
the vessel on which the same may be laden, or of other persons having control 
of the same. 

VESSELS TO REPORT. 

XXXVII. Every vessel, on approaching a gunboat or revenue cutter, or ves- 
sel appearing to be such, before proceeding further shall bear up and speak said 
boat or cutter, and submit to such examination as may be required. 

TRANSPORTATION OF PRODUCTS. 

XXXVIII. All loyal persons residing in a State or part of a State declared 
in insurrection, if within the lines of actual occupation by the military forces of 
the United States, as indicated by the published order of the commanding gen- 
eral of the department or district so occupied, may be permitted by the super- 
vising special agent thereof, or such assistant special agent as he shall designate 
for that purpose, to bring or send to market in the loyal States any products 
Avhich they shall have produced with their own labor, or the labor of freedmen 
or others employed and paid by them, upon making and filing with such offi- 
cer an affidavit in the following form : 



74 , RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

AFFIDAVIT OF APPLICAKT TO TRANSPORT PRODUCTS. 

State of 

County of 

I, , being duly sworn, say that I reside in the county of 

, in the State of ; that I have produced, during the year 186 , 

with my own labor and the labor of freedmeu and others whom I have employed and paid, 

or secured to be paid, according to the rules of the supervising special agent of the 

agency ; that I desire to transport the same to , in the State of 

, by way of , for sale, or other disposition ; that 

the same is now at , in the county of , and State of 

, and is contained in packages, marked : that I 

am in all respects true and loyal to the government of the United States, and have never 
committed any act by which my property is rendered liable to forfeiture or confiscation to 
the United States, under any law thereof. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this , ] 86 . 

PERMIT TO TRANSPORT PRODUCTS. 

XXXIX. Upon receiving the above affidavit and being satisfied of its truth, 
such agent shall grant a permit authorizing the transportation of the products 
named to the first port or place in a loyal State where there is a permit officer 
named in regulation II, and at which the same are to be imladed or reshipped, 
which place sliall be named in the permit. Such permit shall be in the follow- 
ing form : 

, having made application to me for permit to transport 

from , in the county of 

and State of , to in the State of, , by way of 

and having made and filed with me the affidavit prescribed for such cases, 

and given bond with approved sureties for the payment of all fees and government dues upon 

the said upon its arrival at aforesaid, permission is hereby 

given to the said to transport the said which is contained 

in packages marked , from aforesaid 

to aforesaid. 

Dated at , this day of , 180 .. . 

BOND TO TRANSPORT PRODUCTS. 

XL. Before delivering the permit, the agent granting it shall require and re- 
ceive from the applicant his bond to the United States in duplicate, with two or 
more sureties, to be approved by him, in a penalty of twice the value of the 
products so permitted to be transported, in the following form : 

Know all men by these presents. That we, 

of , as principals, and , 

of , and , of , 

as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America in the sum of 

dollars, ($ , ) to be paid to the United States of America ; for 

which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and ad- 
ministrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and 

dated this day of , in the year one thousand eight hundred and 

«ixty- 

Whereas the said has applied for and received a permit to transport 

from , in the county of , 

in the State of , to , in the State of , by way 

of , which is contained in packages, 

marked 

Now THE CONDITION OF THE ABOVE OBLIOVTION IS SUCH That if the said 

shall transport the said to 

aforesaid, and there report it to the of customs and pay all fees and 

government dues upon the same, and if, in all things connected tiierewith, he shall comply 
with the laws and with the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury concerning the same, 
then this obligation to be void ; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. 

In presence of— 

[L. S.] 

[L. S.] 

-. [L. S.] 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 75 



DISPOSITION OF BOND. 

XLI. Upon receiving the duplicate bond above required, the agent sliall 
forthwith send the original to the officer of the port to whom the fees are to be 
paid, and inform him of any facts relating to the shipment and transportation 
which may enable him more certainly to secure the collection of government 
fees and dues, and upon arrival of the products at his port, such officer shall 
collect the prescribed fees, and inform the internal revenue officer, that he may 
collect the tax upon it. AVhen these payments are made, he shall cancel the 
bond, by writing across its face " cancelled," and shall sign his name thereto, 
and deliver it to the maker or his representative. The agent who received the 
bond shall, upon presentation to him of the bond so cancelled, also cancel the 
duplicate in his possession in the same manner, but shall retain the same so 
cancelled. 

TRANSSHIP.MENT OF PRODUCTS. 

XLII. If, from any cause, it becomes necessary to transship any products in 
transitu under permit, as above provided, notice thereof shall be given to the 
permit officer of the port or place where it is made, or, if made where there is 
no such officer, then at the first port or place to be passed where there is one, 
and obtain his approval of the traiis.shipment, to be indorsed on the pe-mit. The 
officer so approving will promptly advise the proper officer at the port of desti- 
nation of his action in the premises. 

PLANTATION SUPPLIES. 

XLIII. Stock, implements and supplies, for plantations worked by freedmen 
under the regulations relating thereto, may be permitted to be transported to 
such plantations without payment of the fees hereafter prescribed, upon presen- 
tation to the permit officer of a certificate of the supervising special agent, or 
assistant special agent of the district in which they are located, in the following 
form : 

CERT[FICATE FOR PLANTATtON SUPPLIES. 

This mav certify, That is a loyal person residing in the county of 

, in the State of , within the lines of actual occupation 

by the military forces of the United States, and that he is working the plantation known as 
the , in the of , and State of 

, and that he employs freedmen thereon, under 

the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto ; that the articles and sup- 
plies named in the memorandum thereof, and countersigned by me, and hereto attached, are 
necessary in carrying on the said plantation and supporting the freedmen and their families 
thereon. 

Dated at , this day of , 1S6... 

, Special Agent. 

Agency. 

PRODUCTS MOVING WITHOUT PERMIT TO BE SEIZED. 

XLIV. Officers and agents of the Treasury Department are directed to seize 
any products of an insurrectionary State found moving without permit, as above 
provided, or without evidence that all fees and government dues have been paid, 
and to cause proceedings to be instituted for the forfeiture thereof to the United 

States. 

FORFEITURE FOR VIOLATIONS. 

XLV. All vessels, boats, and other vehicles used for transportation, violating 
regulations or local rules, and all cotton, tobacco, or other products or merchan- 
dise shipped or transported, or purchased or sold in violation thereof, Avill be 
forfeited to the United States. If any fiilse statement be made or deception 



76 . RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

practiced in obtaining an authority, certificate, or permit under tliese regulations 
sucli authority, certificate, or permit, and all others connected therewith or af- 
fected thercb}', will be absolutely void, and all merchandise purchased or shipped 
under them shall be forfeited to the United States. In all cases of forfeiture, 
as aforesaid, immediate seizure will be made and proceedings instituted promptly 
for condemnation. The attention of all officers of the government, common 
carriers, shippers, consignees, owners, masters, conductors, agents, drivers, and 
other persons connected with the transportation of merchandise, or trading therein, 
is particularly directed to the acts of July 13, 1861, May 20, 1SG2, March 12, 
1863, and July 2, 1864, and to the orders of the Secretaries of War and of the 
Navy hereto appended. 

FEES. 

XLYI. The following fees are prescribed : 

Fees for adniiuisteriug oath and certifying affidavit 10 cents. 

authority from agent 3 dolls. 

certificate of assistant or local special agent 10 cents. 

each permit for pui-poses of trade 20 " 

each permit to transport cotton from any insurrectionary district to any 

loyal State, per pound 4 cents. 

permit to transport tobacco, per hhd 2 dolls. 

permit to transport to or from such district, other products, goods, wares, 
or merchandise, three per centum on the sworn invoice value thereof at 
the place of shipment, 
for each permit for individual, family or plantation supplies, on every pur- 
chase over $20 and not over $50 5 cents. 

over $50 and not over .$100 10 " 

over,«!l00 15 " 

For permits for individual, family, or plantation supplies, not over twenty dollars in amount, 
no charge is allowed, except for revenue stamps, on affidavits and certificates in districts 
under restriction ; and no charge, except five cents for permit and five cents for each revenue 
stamp on affidavit and certificate, is allowed in States declared in insurrection. When 
purchases are less than five dollars, the permit officer may dispense with affidavits and 
certificates, when no ground to suspfct fraud or imposition appears. 

Internal revenue stamps are required by law to be attached to affidavits, cer- 
tificates, and bonds, but not to any other instruments or writings provided for 
by these regulations. Stamps will be furnished by the proper special agents at 
the rates fixed by the internal revenue act, namely: 

Affidavit 5 

Bonds not exceeding $1,000 50 

Bond.s exceeding $1,000, for every additional $1,000 or fractional part thereof 50 

Certificates 5 

Power of attorney 50 

XLVII. Every officer authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to grant 
permits under regulation II, shall keep in his office a record of every permit 
granted by him, showing the names of the owner, shipper, and consignee, the 
place from and to which each transportation is permitted, the character and in- 
voice value of the merchandise permitted, and shall transmit, to the Secretary as 
nearly as possible on the first day of every month, an abstract of such record 
and an abstract statement, showing the permits granted daily to parts of States 
not declared in insurrection, but in which trade is restricted, and also showing 
the number and aggregate amount of permits granted daily to States declared 
in insurrection, the fees receiv'ed, and the disposition made of the same, together 
with the names of all agency aids reporting to him, and the compensation paid 
to each. 



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AGENTS TO PAV OVER MONEY, ETC. 

XLVIII. All money received by each assistant or local special agent shall be 
paid over as promptly as possible to the supervising special agent, or to an as- 
sistant treasurer, or designated depository, as directed by him, and so that all 
receipts during each month shall be paid over before the making of his required 
monthly report ; and all money received by each supervising special agent, or 
collectoi', surveyor, or other oificer authorized to grant permits, under these regu- 
lations, shall be promptly paid over to the assistant treasurer, or designated 
depository most convenient to him, and so that all receipts for each month shall 
be so paid over, before the making of his monthly report. 

OFFICERS TO REPORT. 

XLIX. Every officer authorized to receive money under these regulations 
shall transmit to the Secretary, on the first of each month, a report, stating in 
detail all moneys so received by him during the preceding month, and from what 
sources received, together with all expenses of his office incidental to the exe- 
cution of these regulations ; and if any money has been paid out or otherwise 
disposed of by him during the month, an account thereof, and by what authority, 
to whom, or for what purpose it was so paid or disposed of, with the vouchers 
therefor. A duplicate of this report and account, when made by officers in 
States declared in insurrection, or in restricted districts in loyal States, shall, at 
the same time, be transmitted to the supervising special agent for the agency in 
which it shall be made. 

RECORDS — LOCAL SPECIAL AGENTS. 

L. Local special agents shall keep a record of every permit and certificate 
given by them, with the date and amount thereof, and the name and residence 
of the party to whom given ; of all bonds required of owners or holders of goods 
in danger of being transported to insurgents, and their action where the required 
bond is not given. And they will also, as nearly as possible on the first day of 
every month, transmit to the proper supervising special agent a transcript of such 
record, and will deliver to such agent all bonds or securities received by them 
xmder these regulations. 

RECORDS — ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENTS. 

LI. Assistant special agents shall keep a record of all their official transac- 
tions, showing specifically and in detail every authority given to sell supplies; 
every aiithority for the transportation of products ; every inspection of a sup- 
ply store, and the results thereof; all appointments of agency aids on cars, ves- 
sels, and boats, and the compensation of each; all seizures in cases of excess or 
evasion of permits to blockaded ports ; all seizures or detentions of vessels or 
vehicles departing, or attempting to depart, when clearance has been refused ; 
all cases of security required when goods found in danger of being transported 
to insurgents, and, if security not given, the action taken by them; all fees 
received for affidavits and authorities to sell supplies, and for the transportation 
of products, and from whom and for what received. And they shall, on the 
first day of every mouth, transmit to the proper supervising special agent a 
transcript of such record and all bonds or securities received by them under 
these regulations. 

RECORDS — SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS. 

LIL Supervising special agents shall keep a record of all their official trans- 
actions, showing fully the name and location of each local special agent and 
agency aid appointed by them, and the compensation of each; of conferences 



78 , RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

with generals commanding departments, and designations of military lines, 
(Regulation IV;) of all authorities given for supply stores, stating tlie date, 
name of trader, and amount of goods authorized ; of the inspection of supply 
stores, and the results ; of all authorities given for the transportation of products, 
to whom given, and the locality from which and to which transportation is per- 
mitted ; of all revocations of authorities, certificates, and permits; of all infor- 
mation touching any goods or transactions given to other officers of the depart- 
ment; of all appointments of agency aids upon cars, vessels, and boats; of all 
seizures and detention of vessels or vehicles departing, or attempting to depart, 
after clearance has been refused ; of all securities required and received of 
owners or holders of goods in danger of being transported to insurgents, and of 
their action if security Avas not given. And on the first day of every month, 
as nearly as possible, they shall transmit to this department an abstract of such 
record for the previous month, together with a copy of the abstracts of records, 
and a statement of all bonds and securities received by them from assistant and 
local special agents. ■ 

GENERAL AGENTS. 

LIII. The general agent will visit the several agencies and permit officers 
as often as practicable, and take or direct such action as may be necessary to 
insure a uniform construction of these regulations and harmony of action under 
them; direct the making of such local rules by supervising special agents as in 
his judgment shall be proper ; hear and decide, or refer to the Secretary of the 
Treasury, appeals from the action of the supervising or other special agents ; 
and generally to cause the laws and regulations governing restricted intercourse 
to be faithfully and honestly administered. And he shall promptly report to 
the Secretary of the Treasury all misconduct or inefficiency on tbe part of 
supervising, assistant, or other agents and officers engaged in executing these 
regulations. 

THESE REGULATIONS TO SLPERSEDE ALL OTHERS. 

LIV. These regulations shall supersede those of September 11, 1863, and all 
others conflicting herewith, affecting commercial intercourse with States declared 
in insurrection ; and all permits hereafter gianted by any officer of the Treasury 
Department will be granted in pursuance of them and of the local rules author- 
ized by them, or by virtue of authority hereafter given by the Secretary of the 
Treasury. 

AUTHORITIES RKVOKED. 

LVr All existing authorities to purchase products in insurrectionary States 
are hereby revoked, except that products purchased in good faith under such 
authorities, and paid for prior to the date hereof, m.ay be transported in the same 
manner and subject to the same conditions as products raised by the labor of 
freedmeu, (Regulation XXXVIII.) 

All authorities to transport goods, wares, or merchandise into an insurrec- 
tionary State are hereby revoked. 

WHEN REGULATIONS TAKE EFFECT. 

LVI. These regulations shall take effect upon the publication thereof. 



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AMENDED REGULATION, SERIES OF JULY 29, 1864. 

Treasury Department, January 4, 1865. 

It having been represented to tliis department that Regulation LV, concern- 
ing commercial intercourse, as amended December 22, 18G4, is liable to miscon- 
struction, and has been misconstrued as to its intent and meaning, it is hereby 
amended as follows : 

LV. All authorities issued prior to July 29, 1864, to purchase products in 
insurrectionary States are hereby revoked, except that products purchased in 
good faith under such authorities, and paid for in part or in whole, prior to the 
said 29th day of July, 1864, may be transported to market as before the passage 
of the act of July 2, 1864, subject to the following limitations and conditions, 
and included in the following classes: 

1st. Those which have been wholly paid for. 

2d. Those upon which part payment has been made, coupled with a legal 
obligation to pay the residue, so that the articles purchased are at the risk of 
the purchaser, and such payment is in nowise dependent upon their delivery. 

3d. Where part payment has been made, without such obligation as to the 
balance, so much of the products alleged to have been purchased as the amount 
actually advanced will pay for at the stipulated price. 

The original permits must be produced in each case and proof furnished, to 
the satisfaction of a proper permit officer and a supervising or assistant special 
agent for the agency or district in which proof is to be made, that the property 
desired to be moved comes within one of the classes named above, and that the 
privilege conferred by the original permit has been in no way violated or abused — 
a certificate of which facts must be indorsed upon the permit over their official 
signature, which permit so indorsed Avill then bo considered as revived and in 
full force to the extent specified in the indorsement, in accordance with this rule. 

W. P. PESSENDEN, 

Secretary of the Treasury, 



EXECUTIVE ORDER. 

Executive Mansion, Jawwory 4, 1865. 
I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, having seen and con- 
sidered the within amended regulation, numbered LV, prescribed by the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury, do hereby approve the same; and I further declare and 
order that products moving in compliance with the said regulation shall be 
exempt from seizure and from confiscation and forfeiture to the United States. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



ABANDONED, CAPTURED AND CONFISCABLE PERSONAL 

PROPERTY. 

Regulations prescribed hy the Secretary of the Treasury concerning abandoned, 
captured and confiscable property, under the acts of Congress respectively ap- 
proved March 12, 1S63, and July 2, 1S64. 

AGENTS TO CARRY OUT THESE REGULATIONS, 

I. The regulations relative to abandoned, captured and confiscable personal 
property will be carried into effect by the same agents and under the same su- 
pervision as are pi-ovided under the regulations concerning commercial inter- 
course. 

ASSISTANT SPECIAL AGENTS IN EACH AGENCY. 

II. There shall be assigned to each special agency such number of assistant 
special agents as may be necessary, who, with the supervising special agent, 
shall collect and receive all abandoned, captured and confiscable property, except 
such as has been used or was intended to be used for waging or carrying on war 
against the United States, viz., arms, ordnance, ships, steamboats, or other water- 
craft, and their furniture, forage, military supplies, and munitions of war. 

ABANDONED, CAPTURED AND CONFISCAKLE PROPERTY DESCRIBED. 

III. Abandoned property is that which has been or may be deserted by the 
owners, or when the lawful owner thereof shall be voluntarily absent therefrom 
and engaged, either in arms or otherwise, in aiding or encouraging the rebellion. 

Captured property is that which has been or may be seized or taken from 
hostile possession by the military or naval forces of the United States. 

Confiscable property is that which is liable to confiscation under the act of 
July 17, 1862. 

A(iE\TS TO KEEP RECORDS. 

IV. Each agent collecting or receiving any such property will immediately 
make and keep a full record of all the facts or information concerning it known 
or accessible to him, including, as nearly as possible, the following : the charac- 
ter and quantity of the property received or collected, where captured or found 
received as abandoned, under what circumstances, by whom owned or alleged 
to be owned, noting, where practicable, the name and address of one or more 
truthful residents of the neighborhood acquainted with the property and the 
owner or claimant thereof, and any statements they may make in connection 
therewith, by whom such property was captured, abandoned, or seized for con- 
fiscation, by whom received or collected, from whom received, all names, marks, 
signs or devices (whether distinct, indistinct, or partially erased) upon such 
property, together with all other information which may in any way serve to 
i^dentify or make known the history of any particular lot, or to trace the same, 
or the proceeds thereof, from the earliest period possible to its final disposition. 

He will also charge against each lot and keep a true and detailed account in 
triplicate of each item of expense incurred in its collection, transportation, care 
and sale or other disposition by him, or where two or more lots arc treated to- 
gether, a fair and just proportion against each, as well as all fees due, in any 
way, to the government thereon. 



PERSONAL PROPERTY ABANDONED, CAPTURED, ETC. 81 
AGENTS TO MAKE REPORTS. 

V. When such property is collected or received by an assistant special agent, 
he will promptly transmit one copy of the above record to the Secretary of the 
Treasury, and one to the proper supervising special agent, and will retain one 
copy for his own files. When it is so collected or received by a supervising 
special agent, he will transmit one copy of the record to the Secretary of the 
Treasury and retain one copy for his own files. 

AGENTS TO RECEIVE AND COLLECT ABANDONED PERSONAL PROPERTY AND 

GIVE RECEIPTS. 

VI. Such agents will receive and collect abandoned personal property from 
any officer or private of the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, or 
any officer, sailor, or marine in the naval service of the United States, upon the 
inland waters of the United States, who may have, take or receive any aban- 
doned property from persons in such insurrectionary districts, or have it under 
their control, and the agent receiving it v/ill in all cases give a receipt therefor 
in the following form : 

Received of 

, estimated 

at $ , taken or received aud held by him as abandoned property in an 

insurrectionary district, and claimed to be the property of 

, and turned over to me by said , 

which property I have received as agent of the Treasury Department, appointed in pursu- 
ance of certain acts of Congress, approved July 13, 1861, May 20, 18(32, March 12, IBGiJ, 
and July 2, 1864. 

The said property to be transported and disposed of under the regulations of the Secretary 
of the Treasury prescribed in pursuance of the authority conferred on him by said acts. 

Dated , 18G... 

And a record of the property so collected and received shall be made, and 
the property disposed of as directed in regulations IV, IX, XI, and XV. 

AGENTS TO RECEIVE PROPERTY FROM PERSONS IN MILITARY OR NAVAL SERVICE. 

VII. Such agents will collect and receive of any officer or private, or person 
employed in or with the regular or volunteer forces of the United States, any 
property held by him which shall have been captured in any district declared to 
be in insurrection against the United States, except such as shall be required 
for military use of tlie United States forces ; and all property so held by them 
shall be received by the agent as captured property, leaving all questions con- 
cerning the class to which it belongs for the consideration of the Secretary of the 
Treasury ; and they shall also receive with such property the necessary invoices 
thereof, and all receipts, bills of lading, and other papers, document?, and A^ouch- 
ers showing title to such property or the right to the possession, control, or 
direction thereof, and such order, indorsement, or writing as the party has power 
to make, to enable such agent to take possession of such property or the proceeds 
thereof. 

And he will give to the officer, private, or person from whom any property 
is so received, a receipt in the form following : 

Received of 

estimated at | , captured by the forces of the United States, and claimed to 

be the property of , 

which property I have received as special agent of the Treasury Department, appointed in 
pursuance of certain acts of Congress approved July 13, 1861. May 20, 1862, March 12, 1863, 
and July 2, 1864. The said property to be transported and disposed of under the regulations 
of the Secretary of the Treasury prescribed in pursuance of the authority conferred on liim 
by said acts. 

And a record of the property so collected and received shall be made, and 
copies transmitted, and the property disposed of as directed in regulations IV^ 
IX, XI, and XV. 

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82 PERSONAL PROPERTY ABANDONED, CAPTURED, ETC 

PROPERTY REQUIRED FOR PUBLIC USB TO BE APPRAISED AND DELIVERD OVER. 

VIII. When any part of the goods oi- property received or collected by any 
supervising or assistant special ag-ent is demanded tor public nse, and a requisi- 
tion therefor is presented, signed by the general commanding department, or by 
some other officer authorized by such commander of department, the special 
agent having such property in charge shall select three competent and disinter- 
ested persons, to be approved by such officer, who shall make oath for the faith- 
ful discharge of their duties, and who shall appraise .said goods or pixjperty, and 
make a certificate thereof in the following form : 

The uudersigned having been appointed by , special agent, to 

appraise certain property alleged to have been collected or received as abandoned property or 

captured by , special agent of tlie Treasvny Department, 

having each of us made oath for the faithful discharge of our duty as such appraisers, do 
certify that we have carefully examined and appraised the following described property, to 

wit : , and that said 

property is worth 



Appraisers. 

Which certificate shall be certified by the special agent and by the officer re- 
ceiving said property ; and the goods or property so appraised shall be delivered 
over to the officer appointed to receive it ; and the special agent shall in all such 
cases require from the officer or agent receiving said goods or property a receipt 
in the followhig form : 

Received of , alleged to have 

been collected or received by him as abandoned or captured, and which has been this day 

appraised by , appraisers 

appointed with my approval, to be worth dollars, which property has been delivered 

to me by said agent to be appropriated to the public use, as provided in the second section 
of the act of Congress approved March 12, 1863, entitled "An act to provide for the collection 
of abandoned property, and the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary districts within the 
United States." 

And he shall keep a record of all expenses incurred on account thereof, with 
a full description of all such property, and shall make a full report of such ap- 
praisal proceedings to the Secretary of the Treasury, and transmit therewith 
copies of all papers in the case ; and if an assistant special agent, he shall send 
copies of the report and all other papers in the case to the proper supervising 
special agent. 

DISPOSITION OF PERISHABLEPROPBRTY AND SUCH AS CANNOT BE TRANSPORTED. 

IX. In all cases where captured and abandoned property of a perishable na- 
ture shall be collected or received by the proper agents of this department, and 
its immediate sale is required by the interest of all concerned, such agent shall, 
where practicable, forward it without delay to the nearest place designated by 
the Secretary or by n^gulation as a place of sale within a loyal State, consigned 
to the proper officer of this department, who shall forthwith cause it to be sold 
at auction to the highest bidder ; all such shipments to be accompanied by a 
statement as required by regulation IV. 

If, from the character of the property, it shall be impracticable so to transport 
it, the agent shall cause the same to be appraised by three disinterested persons, 
and to be sold at public auction, and promptly transmit a lull report, as pre- 
scribed by regulation IV, together with the certificate of appraisal, taken in 
triplicate, and the account of sales, and hold the proceeds subject to the direction 
of the supervising special agent for that agency. 



PERSONAL PROPERTY ABANDONED, CAPTURED, ETC. 83 



CONTRACTS FOR COLLECTION AND DKLIVERY OF PROPERTY. 

X. When property is liable to be lost or destroyed in consequence of its loca- 
tion being unknown to tlie special agents, or from other causes, and parties pro- 
pose, for compensation, to collect and deliver it into the hands of such agents, at 
points designated by them, supervising special agents may contract, on behalf 
of the United States, for the collection and delivery t) them of such property in 
their respective agencies, on the best possible terms, not exceeding twenty-five 
per cent, of the proceeds of the property, which percentage must be full com- 
pensation for all expenses, of whatever character, incurred in collecting, pre- 
paring, and delivering such property at the points designated. Prior to any 
such contract being made, the party proposing must submit in writing a state- 
ment of the kind and amount of property proposed to be collected, the locality 
whence to be obtained, and all the facts and circumstances connected with it, 
particularly as to its ownership. And any contract made in pursuance of this 
regulation must be in writing, and restricted to the collection and delivery of 
particular lots at named localities ; or, when circumstances clearly justify it, to 
the general collection and delivery of all abandoned property in limited districts 
not greater in any case than one parish or county, and not more than one dis- 
trict to be assigned to one contractor. 

Before payment to any contractor under any contract made in pursuance of 
this regulation, he shall execute a bond, with penalty equal to the amount stip- 
ulated to be paid to him, and with sureties satisfactory to the supervising special 
agent, indemnifying the United States against all claims to the property deliv- 
ered on account of damages by trespass, or otherwise occasioned by the act or 
connivance of the contractor, and against all claims that may arise on account 
of expenses incurred in the collection, preparation, and transportation of said 
property to the points designated in said contract. 

Should a case arise in the opinion of the supervising special agent justifying 
the payment of a larger percentage than one-quarter of the proceeds of the 
property, he will make a statement of the facts and circumstances and the reasons 
in his opinion justifying such additional allowance, and refer the same to the 
Secretary for instructions. 

And for the purpose of getting possession of and transporting to market as 
much of the captured and abandoned property as possible, supervising special 
agents, or assistant special agents under their direction, will appoint and employ 
in their respective agencies, at such per diem compensation as may be judged 
proper, subject to approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, such local special 
agents and agency aids as may be necessary therefor, instructing them fully as 
to the execution of the duties respectively assigned to them. 

DISPOSITION OF CONFISCABLE PROPERTY. 

XI. All confiscable personal property collected or received in any agency 
shall forthwith be forwarded to the supervising special agent thereof, or as di- 
rected by him to the proper officer of the Treasury Department, at the port or 
place to which it shall be sent for legal proceedings, under the act of July 17, 
1SG2 ; and upon presentation to such officer by the United States marshal of the 
proper writ in such proceedings, issued by a coixrt of competent jurisdiction, the 
said property shall be delivered to him. Upon making such delivery, the officer 
delivering will require from the marshal duplicate receipts therefor in the fol- 
lowing form : 

Received of , supervising' special agent, appointed to collect and receive 

confiscable property, as provided in the act of Congress approved July 2, 1864, the following 

described property, viz : , 

which it is alleged belonged to , of , in the 

State of , whose property, it is charged, is confiscable under the act 

of Congress approved July 17, 1862. 



84 . PERSONAL PROPERTY ABANDONED, CAPTURED, ETC. 

By virtue of a writ issued by the court, in proceetliiii^s therein for 

the condemuiitiou of said property under the last-named act, I have demanded and received 
the same. 

Dated , 186 . 

RECORD TO BK KEPT OF CONFISCABLE PROPERTY. 

XII. Agent;3 collecting aud receiving such property will be careful to .Tscer- 
tain and record, in addition to the requirements of regulation IV, all allegations 
against the owner of the property, together with the names and residences of 
witnesses by whom they can be sustained, and all other facts relating thereto 
which may tend to secure justice under the law; and will transmit one copy 
thereof to the United States attorney, who is to institute proceedings for confis- 
cation. 

CAPTURHD, ABANDONED, OR CONFISCABLE PROPERTY TO BE RELEASED ONLY 
BY AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY. 

XIII. No property collected or received as capttired, abandoned, or confisca- 
ble under any act of Congress shall be released by any agent, except by special 
authority from the Secretary of the Treasury, to any persons claiming owner- 
ship of such property ; nor shall any permit be given by such agents to indi- 
viduals to remove such property ; nor shall any liability be incurred or assumed, 
or contract be made on the part of the United States by such agents, except as 
authorized by these regulations. No personal favor shall in any case be ex- 
tended to one individual or party rather than another. 

ASSISTANT AGENTS TO FORWARD PROPERTY. 

XIV. All abandoned, captured, or confiscable property collected or received 
by au assistant special ageut will be promptly forwarded by him to the super- 
vising special agent of the agency in which it shall be collected or received, or 
to such place of sale as he may direct. And all such property collected or I'e- 
ceived by a supervising special agent shall be by him either sold or forwarded 
for sale, in compliance with instructions to him from the Secretary of the Treas- 
ury or from the general ageut of the Treasury Department. 

DISPOSITION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. 

XV. All personal projjerty collected and received in compliance with these 
regulations, other than such as may be appropriated to public use, shall be 
transported to such places as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treas- 
ury as places of sale, consigned to the supervising special agent of the agency 
in which it is collected or received, if within his agency, or to such other person 
as shall be sj)ecially authorized by the Secretary to receive the same, and shall 
there be sold by such supervising special agent, or other person, at public auction, 
to the highest bidder, for lawful money, pursuant to notice previously published 
of the time and place of sale. 

PAYMENT OF EXPENSES OF PROPERTY. 

XVI. Supervising special agents, aud such other persons as shall be specially 
authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to receive and sell captured, aban- 
doned and confiscable property, will p;iy or cause to be paid, out of the general 
fund arising from the sale of all such property received and sold by them, all 
expenses necessarily incurred in collecting, receiving, securing and disposing of 
the same, including fees, taxes, freights, storage, charges, labor, and other neces- 
sary expenses, being careful to avoid all useless or indiscreet expenditures ; and 
will charge each particular lot or parcel with the specific or proportionate amount 



PERSONAL PROPERTY ABANDONED, CAPTURED, ETC. 85 

of all such expenses as can be made specific or proportionate charges to each 
lot or parcel; and will also charge and retain out of the proceeds of each lot or 
parcel one and one-half per centum thereof for the payment of sucli expenses 
connected with the collection, transportation and sale or other disposition thereof 
as cannot be made specific or proportionate charges against each lot or parcel, 
or are not otherwise provided for, such as rents, compensation to clerks or other 
employes, auctioneers, printing and advertising, a carefully stated account of 
which will be kept by such agents or other persons, showing in detail all ex- 
penses paid out of this fimd arising from such charge ; and unless unavoidably 
prevented, they will take vouchers for all expenditures made under this regula- 
tion, and transmit the same with their accounts to the Secretary of the Treasury. 
Out of the balance, if any, of said one and one-half per centum remaining after 
defraying said expenses, the several supervising special agents, or other persons 
selling as aforesaid, may retain as compensation for extra care and responsibility 
a sum not exceeding three-fourths of one per centum of the amount of such sales, 
and with the remainder, if any, may reward extra services in the collection and 
care of property rendered by agents and others, in such manner and to such 
amount as may be approved or directed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENTS TO READER MONTHLY ACCOUNT CURRENT. 

XVII. Each supervising special agent, or other person as aforesaid, shall 
make a full record of each lot or parcel of property coming to his possession in 
the manner prescribed by regulation IV, and report the same, and all sales or 
other disposition thereof made by him, rendering a monthly account current of 
all his transactions to the Secretary, accompanying the same with receipts or 
other vouchers for all moneys paid out by him. All balances remaining in hia 
hands shall be deposited in the treasury from time to time as directed by the 
Secretary. 



ABANDONED AND CONFISCABLE LANDS, HOUSES, AND 

TENEMENTS. 

Regulations concernivg the charge and Icasivg of abandoned and confiscable 
lands, houses, and tenements, in States declared in inswrectiofi, made in pur- 
suance of the act of Congress on that subject, approved July 2, 1864. 

AGENTS TO CARRY OUT THESE REGULATIONS. 

I. The regulations relative to abandoned and confiscable lands, houses, and 
tenements will be carried into effect by the same agents, and under the same 
supervision, as are provided under the regulations concerning commercial inter- 
course. 

AGENTS TO TAKE POSSESSION OF ABANDONED LANDS, TENEMENTS, ETC. 

II. The supervising special agent of each agency, and such assistant special 
agents therein as shall be designated for that purpose, will take possession of all 
lands, houses, and tenements therein, abandoned by the lawful owners thereof, 
and all such as are confiscable under the act of Congress approved July 17, 
1862. 

ASSISTANT AGENT TO KEEP RECORD AND MAKE REPORT. 

III. When an assistant special agent shall take possession of any such prop- 
erty, he will promptly record in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, a 
full description of the property, with a statement of its condition, the name of 
the owner, and any facts relating to him, or to the property which may affect 
the rights of the United States or of others interested in the property, one copy 
of which record he will promptly transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury, and 
one to the proper supervising special agent, who will record the same in a book 
to be kept for that purpose. 

SUPERVISING SPECIAL AGENT TO MAKE RECORD AND REPORT. 

IV. When a supervising special agent shall take possession of any such 
property, he will make a record as above required of an assistant special agent, 
and will transmit a copy thereof to the Secretary of the Treasury. 

LANDS, TENEMENTS, ETC., TO BE LEASED. 

V. All property so possessed will be rented as soon as practicable by the super- 
vising special agent, or the assistant special agent, under his direction, having 
such possession. No lease Avill be made for more than twelve months, and when 
practicable, such property shall be rented from month to month. All leases will 
be in writing, and those for plantations shall be in the following form : 

Memorandum of an agreement made this day of 

186. . , between , special agent of tlie Treasury Department duly ap- 
pointed under the acts of Congress respectively approved March 12, IHIiiJ, and July 2, 1864, 
for taking charge of captured and abandoned property, and leasing abandoned and confis- 
cable lands, liouses, and tenements in the agency, and of 

in the county of and State of 

Witnesseth, that in pursuance of said acts, and of the instructions of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, the said agent, for and in behalf of the United States, agrees, upon the terms 



ABANDONED AND CONFISCABLE LANDS, ETC. 87 

hereinafter contained, to lease to the said from the day of 

, 186.-, to the day of , 186.., the following 

described lands and premises, to wit : 

And the said hereby agrees that one eqnal part of the pro- 
ductions realized by the cultivation and working of the plantation aforesaid shall be promptly 

gathered, prepared and delivered to the authorized agent of the United States at 

on or before the day of , 186 .. , in proper packages and condition 

for transportation. 

And the said further agrees in relation to the employment and 

payment of freedmen worked upon the said plantation, that ho will employ and pay them, 
and provide for their families in compliance with the regulations of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, dated July 29, 1804, concerning the employment and general welfare of freedmen, 
which regulations are made a part of this agreement so far as they relate to employers and 
employed ; and further, that he will do all things required of him by the regulations of the 
Secretary of the Treasuiy concerning abandoned, captured, and confiscable property. 

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of — 

. Ll. s ] 

. fL. S.] 

WHEN LPUSE IS FOR HOUSES AND TENEMENTS ONLY. 

VI. When the lease is for houses and tenements only, then it shall be in the 

above form to the words " to lease to the said ," 

and instead of wliat follows therein insert as follows : 

from the day of , 18 , from month to month, either party 

hereto being at liberty to terminate this lease at the end of any month from the date hereof, 
the following described premises : 

And the said hereby agrees to pay the said agent 

dollars per month, for each month from the date hereof, so long as he shall 

continue in possessioii of the said premises, and to pay the rent of each month in advance, 
and at the expiration of this lease as aforesaid to deliver possession of the said property to 
the said agent, or his successor, in as good condition as the same is now in, loss by fire or 
other unavoidable injury excepted. 

Sgned, sealed and delivered in presence of — 

. [L. S.j 

. [L.S.] 

LEASES TO BE MADE IN TEIPLICATE. 

VII. All leases of lands, houses, and tenements shall be made in triplicate, 
one of which shall be retained by the lessee, one will be retained by the special 
agent making the lease, and one will be forwarded to the Secretary of the 
Treasury. A record will be made by each agent making a lease, containing a 
copy thereof, and any facts connected therewith which may affect the same. A 
copy of the record Avill also be made in a book kept by the supervising special 
agent for that purpose. 

AGENT TO RECEIPT FOR RENTS. 

VIII. Upon the receipt of products or money for rent, the agent receiving the 
same will indorse his receipt therefor upon the copy of the lease held by the 
lessee, and also give him a certified copy of the receipt, which the lessee will 
promptly forward to the Secretary of the Treasury. 

ASSISTANT AGENTS TO KEEP RECORD OF RENTS RECEIVED. 

IX. When products or money shall be received by an assistant special agent, 
he will make an entry in his books of account, stating the products or amount 
of money so received, the name of the person from \vhora received, and the 
lease upon account of which they are paid, the date of receipt, and any other 
facts connected therewith which should be recorded. He will promptly send 
the products or money so received, with a copy of the entry made, to the proper 
supervising special agent, who will credit the products or monej' in his books of 



88 . ABANDONED AND CONFISCABLE LANDS, ETC. 

account, and make an entry in each case similar to that above required, and 
send duplicate receipts in each case to the assistant special agent, who will re- 
tain one copy and send the other to the Secretary of the Treasury. 

SUPERVISING AGENTS TO KEEP RECORD'OF RENTS RECEIVED. 

X. AVlien the products or moneys are received by a supervising special 
agent, he will make the same entry above required of assistant special agents, 
in his books of account, and will send a copy thereof to the Secretary of the 
Treasury. 

DESCRIPTION OF CONFISCABLE LANDS, TENEMENTS, ETC., TO BE KEPT. 

XI. A careful description of all lands, houses, and tenements taken posses- 
sion of by a supervising special agent, or by his direction, as confiscable, will 
be recorded by him in a book kept for that purpose, in which will be entered 
all allegations against the owner which are relied on for condemnation, together 
with the names and residence of the witnesses to substantiate them, a copy of 
which record in each case will be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury. 

COPY OF RECORD OF CONFISCABLE LANDS, &C., TO BE SENT TO UNITED STATES 
DISTRICT ATTORNEY IN CERTAIN CASES. 

XII. When any such lands, houses, faid tenements are situated in a district 
within jurisdiction of a federal court exercising its functions, a copy of the above 
record, together with a statement of any other facts known to the supervising 
special agent affecting tlie same, will be sent by him to the proper United States 
district attorney, that proceedings for confiscation may be instituted, but such 
agent will continue in charge of the property until relieved therefrom by order 
of the court in which such proceedings are instituted. 

PRODUCTS RECEIVED FOR RENTS TO BE SOLD. 

XIII. Supervising special agents will sell or dispose of all products received 
by them for rents, in the same manner and subject to the same regulations as 
are prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury concerning the sale and dispo- 
sition of captured, abandoned, and confiscable personal property. 

MONEY RECEIVED FOR RENTS TO BE DEPOSITED. 

XIV. All money arising from rents, after payment therefrom of any expenses 
that may be approved by the Secretary of the Ti-easury, will be deposited by 
the supervising special agents, with a designated United States depositary or 
assistant treasurer, and each supervising special agent will make a full record of 
all his proceedings, and will report the same from time to time to the Secretary 
of the Treasury, and will render to him a monthly account current of all his 
transactions, accompanying the same with receipts or other vouchers for all 
moneys paid out by him, referring to the letter of approval thereof from the 
Secretary of the Treasury. 

EMPLOYMENT AND WELFARE OF FREEDMEN. 

XV. In leasing abandoned and confiscable lands, provisions shall be made, as 
far as practicable, for the employment and general welfare of freedmen, and pro- 
vision may be made in such leases, and also with those working their own lands 
and employing freedmen under rules established in relation thereto, for obtain- 
ing supplies free from the payment of the fee charged in other cases, and for the 
support of the helpless among such freedmen.. 



FREEBMEK 

Regulations -providing f>r the emplmjment and general loelfarc of all persons 
within thelincs of national military occupation loithin insurrectionary States, 
formerly held as slaves, who are or shall hccome free. 

AGENTS TO CARRY OUT THESE REGULATIONS. 

I. The regulations relative to the employment and general welfare of freed- 
men will be carried into effect by the same agents and under the same super- 
vision as are provided under the regulations concerning commercial intercourse. 

FREEDMEN'S HOME COLONIES. 

II. There shall be established in each special agency one or more places to 
be known as " Freedmen's Home Colonies," where all freed persons within the 
agency may be received and provided for in pursuance of these regulations. 

SUPERINTENDENT OF FREEDMEN HIS DUTIES. 

III. A superintendent of freedmen will be appointed for each one of these 
colonies, under the general direction of the proper supervising special agent. 
Superintendents will make such arrangements as shall be necessary at each 
colony to provide temporary shelter and cai-e for persons received there, and 
also such buildings as are proper for the permanent use of those retained there; 
and will obtain such working animals and other agricultural implements of labor 
and other supplies as may be necessary and proper for the economical conduct 
of these establishments. They will also keep books of record in which shall be 
entered the name, age, condition, former owner, residence and occupation of each 
person received in these colonies; also the marriages, births and deaths occur- 
ring therein ; also all departures, and by whom those departing are employed, 
for what purpose, at what place, and on what terms. 

CLASSIFICATION OF FREEDMEN AND THEIR WA«iES. 

IV. All persons of proper age and condition to labor, when received shall be 
classified by the superintendent as follows : sound persons over 18 and under 
40 years of age shall be classed as No. 1 hands; over 14 and under 18, and 
over 40 and under 55, No. 2 ; over 12 and under 14, and over bb. No. 3. Per- 
sons suffering from any physical defect or infirmity, but able to work, shall be 
classed as he considers proper. The minimum rates of wages of No. 1 males 
shall be $25 per month; No. 2, $20; No. 3, $15. Noa 1, 2, and 3, females, 
$18, $14, $10. These rates shall not restrict mechanics and others from con- 
tracting for higher wages if they can do so. 

EMPLOYMENT TO BE PROVIDED FOR FREEDMEN OF PROPKR AGE. 

V. Superintendents will see that all persons so received, registered and clas- 
sified, who are able to labor, are promptly provided with employment by lessees 
or others desiring their labor, upon the terms specified, and they will permit 
none over the age of twelve capable of labor to remain in idleness ; and they 
will, as far as possible, obtain from planters and others the names and other 
particulars above specified of all freed persons in their employ or within their 
knowledge in the district within which these colonies ai-e located, a record of 



90 FEEEDMEN. 

which shall be kept by them as above provided, and they will do what they 
consistently can to see that all such persons are provided with employment at 
rates equal to those above specified, and that the helpless among them are prop- 
erly cared for. 

APPLICATIONS FOK LABORERS TO BE RECEIVED A\D RECORDED. 

VI. Superintendents will receive and record all applications for the labor of 
freedmen, that those received may be promptly furnished with employment. 
Planters and others employing parents will be required to take their children 
with them, unless the parent prefers to have them remain, in which case super- 
intendents will see that provision is made to apply sufficient of the wages of the 
parent to support the children at the colony. 

WRITTEN AGREEMENTS TO BE MADE BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYES, 

AND CONDITIONS. 

VII. Superintendents shall see that written agreements are made between the 
employer and the employe, by which, in addition to the wages above fixed, the 
employer shall agree to furnish, without charge, sufficient quarters for the labor- 
ers, a separate tenement for each family, with proper regard for sanitary condi- 
tions, one acre of ground for garden purposes to each family, fuel, medical 
attendance, and schools for children ; also, that laborers shall be paid for full 
time unless they are sick or voluntarily neglect to work ; that one-half their 
monthly wages shall be paid to the laborer during each month, and the other 
half at the end of the term of employment ; that, in case the laborer violates his 
contract by voluntary absence or continued neglect to work, the half wages due 
to him shall be forfeited, one-half to the employer, and one-half to the govern- 
ment to aid ill supporting the helpless ; that any wages due to the laborers, 
under the agreement, shall be a first lien upon all crops produced, and that no 
shipment of products shall be made until the superintendent shall certify that 
all dues to laborers are paid or satisfactorily arranged; that no labor in excess 
of ten hours per day shall be required, but if more shall be performed at the 
request of the employer, extra payment shall be made therefor ; that the employ- 
ers shall keep on hand and sell to their employes, at actual cost on the planta- 
tion, a sufficient supply of wholesome food and proper clothing for themselves 
and their families. 

INTEREST IN PROFITS OF LABOR MAY BE GIVEM INSTEAD OF WAGES. 

VIII. In case any person employing freedmen to labor on plantations shall 
wish to give an interest in the profits of their labor instead of the wages above 
fixed, and the laborers desire to accept the same, an agreement in writing may 
be made accordingly, subject to the approval of the proper superintendent. 

Where civil courts are established within reach of parties complaining under 
these agreements, they may seek redress there; but if no such courts are within 
reach, then the complaining party may state his case to a superintendent, who, 
after hearing both parties, shall decide between them. Either party may appeal 
to the proper supervising special agent, whose decision shall be final. 

CARE OF AGED AND INFIRM FREEDMEN. 

IX. Aged or infirm freed persons, and orphan children under twelve years of 
age, and others unfit for regular labor who cannot be otherwise provided for, 
will be retained and provided for by superintendents, and each superintendent 
will see that all such persons under liis care perforin all such labor as is proper, 
considering their condition ; and he will employ as many hands, at regular rates, 



FEEEDMEN. 91 

as may be requisite to produce ou the plantation all tilings that can be raised, 
necessary to the support of the establishment, and no more ; and he will require 
all freed persons temporarily there to labor without wages, until they can be 
employed elsewhere. He will provide such medical attendance and schools as 
are necessary and proper. 

HOME COLONIES MAY BE ASSIGNED TO ASSOCIATIONS UPON CERTAIN CONDITIONS- 

X. Any association or combination of associations desiring to improve the 
condition of freedmen will have assigned to their care and general charge such 
freedmen's home colonies as they may desire, and as they can give satisfactory 
assurance of their ability to provide for. Superintendents for any such colonies 
will bb appointed upon the nomination and in pursuance of the Avishes of such 
associations, and every proper facility for the execution of their purposes will 
be given by the supervising and assistant special agents. Associations desiring 
to operate under this clause are notified that the Secretary reserves the right to 
revoke or modify this regulation whenever, in his judgment, the public interests 
will be promoted by such action. 

RESERVATIONS OF LAND FOR FREEDMEN'S LABOR COLONIES. 

XI. For the purpose of promoting habits of industry and self-reliance among 
freedmen, and to encourage them to locate in colonies, and to enable them to 
work advantageously, there will be reserved in the respective special agencies 
such contiguous abandoned and confiscable lands and plantations as may be 
proper for that purpose, for the exclusive use and cultivation of freedmen, which 
reservations will be called freedmen's labor colonies. Over each of these colonies 
there will be appointed a superintendent for leasing small tracts therein to such 
freedmen as are able to work them ; and such lessees shall be subject to the 
same conditions and entitled to the same rights and privileges as other lessees. 

LABOR COLONIES MAY BE ASSIGNED TO ASSOCIATIONS ON CERTAIN CONDITIONS. 

XII. Any association or combination of associations desiring to aid lessees 
in such colonies who have not sufficient means to cultivate without aid, will 
have set apart to their beneficiaries such part or the whole of any one of these 
colonies as they shall give satisfactory assurance of their ability to provide for; 
and in case they agree to provide the necessary working animals, agricultural 
implements, seeds, and other aid which may be necessary for the cultivation of 
the whole of any such colony, such superintendent will be appointed as may be 
desired by the association. Associations desiring to operate under this clause 
are notified that the Secretary reserves the right to revoke or modify this regu- 
lation whenever, in his judgment, the public interests will be promoted by such 
action. 

SCHOOLS WILL BE ESTABLISHED. 

XIII. Schools will be established within these home and labor colonies suf- 
ficient for the education of all children there under the age of twelve years, 
teachers for which will be provided by the superintendent or by the association, 
as the case may be. 

PENALTIES FOR ILL USAGE OF FREEDMEN. 

XIV. Ill usage of freedmen by lessees or others employed by them will be 
regarded as sufficient ground for the forfeiture of the contract between lessee 
and laborer, or, if the case be an aggravated one, of the lease of a plantation. 
Superintendents will promptly and fully investigate complaints of this character, 
and if they prove to be well founded they will annul the contract for labor as 



92 • FREEDMEN. 

above. If, ia their opinion, this action is inadequate, they will report the case 
to the proper supervising special agent, who may, if he thinks proper, cancel 
the lease, subject to appeal to the general agent. 

EXPKNSES TO I5B APPROVED BY SKCRETARY. COPIES OF ALL PAPERS TO BE 

TRANSMITTED. 

XV. All expenses must be authorized and approved by the Secretary of the 
Treasury. Each superintendent, on the first of every month, will furnish the 
Secretary of the Treasury and the proper supervising special agent with copies 
of all records, agreements, and other papers under his charge, and also a monthly 
statement of accounts, of all receipts and expenditures, with vouchers for all 
money paid out. Supervising special agents will render a monthly account 
current of all receipts and expenditures within their lespective agencies imder 
these regulations, accompanied with vouchers for all money paid by them. 



War Department, July 29, 1864. 
The attention of all officers and soldiers of the army of the United States* 
whether volunteer or regular, is specially directed to the regulations of the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury, approved by the President, dated July 29, 1864, and su- 
perseding the regulations of September 11, 1863 ; and they will in all respects 
observe General Order of this department numbered eighty-eight, and dated 
March 31, 1863, with regard to said regulations of July 29, 1864, as if the same 
had been originally framed and promulgated with reference to them ; and atten- 
tion is called to the several acts of Congress appended hereto, and especially 
to sections nine and ten of the act approved July 2, 1864. 

EDWIN M. STANTON, 

Secretary of War. 



Navy Department, July 29, 1864. 

The attention of all officers, sailors and marines of the navy of the United 
States is especially directed to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, 
approved by the Pi-esident, dated July 29, 1864, and superseding the regulations 
of September 11, 1863, and they will, in all respects, observe the order of this 
department dated March 31, 1863, with regard to said regulations of July 29, 
1864, as if the same had been originally pi'omulgated in reference to them ; and 
attention is called to the several acts of Congress appended hereto, and es- 
pecially to sections nine and ten of the said act approved July 2, 1864. 

GIDEON WELLES, 

Secretary of the Navy. 



ORDER OF QUARTERMASTER GENERAL. 

[General Orders No. 32.] 

Quartermaster General's Office, 

WasJiingt07i City, August 4, 1864. 

I. All officers of tlie quartermasters' department, upon receiving from the 
duly authorized agents of the Treasury Department written application for the 
use of transportation by land or water for collecting and forwarding to market 
abandoned, captured, and confiscable property, under the regulations of the 
Secretary of the Treasury of the 29th July, 1864, will submit such applica- 
tions to their immediate commander, with such explanation as to the available 
means of transportation on hand, and the quantity called for by the applica- 
tion, as will enable the commanding officer to decide whether it can be furnished 
without interference with or injury to the military service or operations of the 
troops under his command. 

If approved by the commander, the transportation will be furnished. 

II. Of all actual expenditures incurred by the quartermasters' department 
in executing this order, accurate account will be kept, which will be transmitted 
to the Quartermaster General, with full explanations, in order that the appropria- 
tion of the quartermasters' department may be reimbursed by the Treasury 
Department out of the proceeds of sales of property collected under this order. 

No charge will be made for the use of steamers and sail vessels for the trans- 
portation or collection of such property unless there is detention during the 
time of collecting, loading, or discharging the property. 

For all time thus consumed the proper charges, as of time of chartered ves- 
sels, of crews, and for coal and stores consumed, will be made. 

M. C. MEIGS, 
Bvt. Maj. Gen. and Q. M. Gen. 



CIRCULAR, AUGUST 24, 1864. 



Treasury Department, August 24, 1864. 

The officers named in the second regulation concerning commercial intercourse, 
&c., as " to be authorized under instructions from the Secretary to permit sup- 
plies to loyal persons," &c., as therein provided, are hereby authorized to grant 
permits for the purpose indicated, as follows : 

The surveyors of customs at Pittsburg, "Wheeling, Cincinnati, Madison, 
Louisville, New Albany, Evansville, Paducah, Cairo, Quiucy. and St. Louis, 
to such points in the first and second agencies as may be specified in the certifi- 
cate of tlie proper local special agent, to be presented in each case. 

The surveyor of customs at Nashville, to such points in the first agency as 
may bo specified in the certificate of the proper local special agent, to be pre- 
sented in each case. 

The surveyor of customs at Memphis, and the acting surveyors at Helena, 
Vickoburg, and Natchez, to such points in second agency as may be specified in 
the certificate of the proper local special agent, to be presented in each case. 

The surveyor of customs at Baltimore, and the collectors of customs at Bos- 
ton, New York, Philadelphia, Georgetown, Alexandria, Beaufort, and Port 
Royal, to such points in the fifth, sixth, and seventh agencies as may be speci- 
fied in the certificate of the proper local special agent, to be presented in each 
case. 

The collector of customs at New Orleans, to such points in the second, third, 
and fourth agencies as may be specified in the certificate of the proper local 
special agent, to be presented in each case. 

Permits will only be granted by the otHccrs and for the districts designated 
above, and in strict conformity with the regulations of 29th July, 1864. 

W. P. FESSENDEN, 
Secretary of the Treasury. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS 

Concerning commercial intercourse loith and in insurrectionary States. 



EXECUTIVE ORDER. 

Executive Chamber, 

Washington, April 29, 1865. 
Being desirous to relieve all loyal citizens and well-disposed persons residing' 
in insurrectionary States from unnecessary commercial restrictions, and to en- 
courage them to return to peaceful pursuits, it is Jiereby ordered : 

I. That all restrictions upon internal, domestic, and coastwise commercial in- 
tercourse be discontinued in such parts of the States of Tennessee, Virginia, 
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and so 
much of Louisiana as lies cast of the Mississippi river, as shall be embraced 
within the lines of national military occupation, excepting- only such restrictions 
as are imposed by acts of Congress and regulations in pursuance thereof, pre- 
scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and approved by the President ; and 
excepting also from the effect of this order the following articles contraband of 
war, to wit : arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammunition is manu- 
factured, gray uniforms and cloth, locomotives, cars, railroad iron, and machinery 
for operating railroads, telegraph wires, insulators, and instruments for operating 
telegraphic lines. 

II. That all existing military and naval orders in any manner restricting in-, 
ternal, domestic, and coastwise commercial intercourse and trade with or in the 
localities above named be, and the same are hereby revoked ; and that no mili- 
tary or naval officer in any manner interrupt or interfere with the same, or with 
any boats or other vessels engaged therein, under proper authority, pursuant to 
the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury. 

ANDREW JOHNSON. 



Treasury Department, May 9, 1865. 
With a view of can-ying out the purposes of the Executive, as expressed in 
his executive order, bearing date April 29, 1865, " to relieve all loyal citizens and 
well-disposed persons residing in iasurrcctiouary States from unnecessary com- 
mercial restrictions, and to encourage them to return to peaceful pursuits," the 
following regulations are pi'escribed, and will hereafter govern commercial inter- 
course in and between the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana east of the Mis- 
sissippi river, heretofore declared in insurrection, and the loyal States : 

I. All commercial transactions under these regulations shall be conducted 
under the supervision of officers of the customs, and others acting as officers of 
the customs, 

PROHIBITED ARTICLES. 

II. The following articles are prohibited, and none such will be allowed to 
be transported to or within any State heretofore declared in insurrection, except 
on government account, viz : Arms, ammunition, all articles from which ammu- 



96 • RULES AND KEGULATIOXS. 

nition is manufactured, gray uniforms and clotb, locomotives, cars, railroad iron, 
and machinery for operating railroads, telegraph wires, insulators, and instru- 
ments for operating telegraph lines. 

AMOUNT OF PRODUCTS ALLOWKl), AND PLACES TO WHICH SUCH MAY BE 

TRANSPORTED. 

III. It having been determined and agreed upon by the proper officers of the 
War and Treasury Departments, in accordance with the requirement of section 
9 of the act of July 2, 1864, that the amount of goods required to supply the 
necessities of loyal pert^ons residing in insurrectionary States, within the mili- 
tary lines of the United States forces, shall be an amount equal to the aggregate 
of the applications therefor, and that the places to which such goods may be 
taken shall be, all places within such lines that may be named in the several 
applications for transportation thereto, it is therefore directed that clearance shall 
be granted, upon application, by any loyal person or party, for all goods and 
merchandise not prohibited, in such amounts, and to such places which, under 
the revenue and collection laws of the United States, have been created ports 
of entry and delivery in the coastwise trade, as the applicant may desire. 

CLEARANCE. 

IV. Before any vessel shall be cleared for any port within the insurrectionary 
States, or from one port to another therein, or from any such ports to a poit in 
the loyal States, the master of every such vessel shall present to the proper 
officer of customs, or other officer acting as such, a manifest of her cargo, which 
manifest shall set forth the character of the merchandise composing said cargo, 
and, if showing no prohibited articles, shall be certified by such officer of the 
customs. 

ARRIVAL AND DISCHARGE OF CARGO IN AN INSURRECTIONARY STATE. 

V. On the arrival of any such vessel at the port of destination, it shall be the 
duty of the master thereof forthwith to present to the proper officer of the cus- 
toms the certified manifest of her cargo ; whereupon the officer shall cause the 
vessel to be discharged under his general supervision, and if the cargo is found 
to correspond with the manifest, a certificate to that effect shall be given to said 
master. 

If there shall be found on board any prohibited articles, such articles shall be 
seized and held subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the 
officer shall forthwith report to the department all the facts of the case; and any 
such vessel arriving from any foreign port, or from any domestic port, without a 
proper clearance, or with contraband articles on board, shall, with the cargo, be 
seized and held as subject to confiscation under the laws of the United States. 

LADING WITHIN AND DEPARTURE FROM AN INSURRECTIONARY STATE. 

VI. Vessels in ports within an insurrectionary State not declared by procla- 
mation open to the commerce of the world shall be laden under the supervision 
of the proper officers of this department, whose duty it shall be to require, before 
any articles are allowed to be shipped, satisfactory evidence that upon all mer- 
chandise so shipped the taxes and fees required by law and these regulations 
have been paid or secured to be paid, which fact, with the amount so paid, shall 
be certified upon the manifest before clearance shall be granted ; and if, upon 
any articles so shipped, the fees and internal revenue taxes, or either, shall only 
have been secured to be paid, such fact sha,ll be noted upon the manifest, and 
the proper officer at the port of destination of such vessel shall hold the goods 
until all such taxes and fees shall be paid according to law and these regulations. 



EULES AND REGULATIONS. 97 



SUPPLY STORES. 

VII. Persons desiring to keep a supply store at any place within an insur- 
rectionary State shall make application therefor to the nearest officer of the 
Treasury Department, which application shall set forth that the applicant is 
loyal to the government of the United States ; and upon filing evidence of such 
loyalty a license for such supply store shall forthwith be granted ; and the per- 
son to whom the license is given shall be authorized to purchase goods at any 
other supply store within the insurrectionary States, or at such other poicit in 
the United States as he may select. 

The party receiving such license shall pay therefor the license fee prescribed 
by the internal revenue law. 

EXCEPTED ARTICLES. 

VIII. All articles of local production and consumption, such as fresh vege- 
table.", fruits, butter, ice, eggs, fresh meat, wood, coal, &c., &c., may, without 
fee or restriction, be freely transported and sold at such points within an insur- 
rectionary State as the owner thereof may desire. 

SHIPMENT OF PRODUCTS OF AN LNSURRECTIONAR V STATE. 

IX. All cotton not produced by persons with their own labor, or with the 
labor of freedmen or others employed and paid by them, must, before shipment 
to any port or place in a loyal State, be sold to and resold by an officer of the 
government specially appointed for the purpose, under regulations pi-escribed by 
the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by the President; and, before allow- 
ing any cotton or other product to be shipped, or granting clearance for any vessel, 
the proper customs officer, or other person acting as such, must require from the 
purchasing agent or the internal revenue officer a certificate that cotton proposed 
to be shipped has been resold by him, or that twenty-five per cent, of the value 
thereof has been paid to such purchasing agent in money, and that the cotton 
is thereby free from further fee or tax. If the cotton proposed to be shipped is 
claimed and proved to be the product of a person's own labor, or of freedmen 
or otheis employed and paid by them, the officer will require that the shipping 
fee of three cents per pound shall be paid or secured to be paid thereon. 

If any product other than cotton is offered for shipment, the certificate of the 
internal revenue officer, that all internal taxes due thereon have been collected 
and paid, must be produced prior to such products being shipped or cleared; and 
if there is no internal revenue officer, then such taxes shall be collected by the 
customs officer, or he shall cause the same to be secured to be paid as provided 
in these regulations. 

INLAND TRANSPdRTATIOjr. 

X. The provisions of these regulations, necessarily modified, shall be consid- 
ered applicable to all shipments inland to or within insurrectionary States by 
any means of transportation whatsoever. 

CHARGES. 

XI. Goods not prohibited may be transported to insurrectionary States free. 
The charges upon all products shipped or transportedyyowi an insurrectionary 

State, other than upon cotton, shall be the charges prescribed by the internal 
revenue laws. Upon cotton, other than that purchased and resold by the gov- 
ernment, three cents per pound, which must be credited by the officer collecting, 
as follows, viz : two cents per pound as the internal tax and one cent per pound 
as the shipping fee. All cotton purchased and resold by the government shall 
be allowed to be transported free from all fees and taxes whatsoever. 
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RECORDS TO BE KEPT. 



XII. Full and complete accounts and records must be kept, by all officers 
acting under those regulations, of their transactions under them, in such man- 
ner and form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Customs. 

LOYALTY A REQUISITE. 

XIII. No goods shall be sold in an insurrectionary State by or to, nor any 
transaction held with, any person or persons not loyal to the government of the 
United States. 

Proof of loyalty must be the taking and subscribing the following oath, or 
evidence to be filed that it, or one similar in purport and meaning, has been 
taken, viz : 

I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Ahnipbty God, that I will henceforth 

faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and all laws 
made in piu'suance thereto. 

FORMER REGULATIONS REVOKED. 

These regulations shall take effect and be in force on and after the 10th day 
of ^lay, 1865, and shall supersede all other regulations and circulars heretofore 
prescribed by the Treasury Department concerning commercial intercourse be- 
tween loyal and insurrectionary States, all of which are hereby rescinded and 
annulled. 

HUGH Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



Executive Chamber, 
WasJiington City, May 9, 1865. 
The foregoing rules and regulations concerning commercial intercourse with 
and in States and parts of States declared in insurrection, prescribed by the 
Secretary of the Treasury in conformity with acts of Congress relating thereto, 
having been seen and considered by me, are hereby approved. 

ANDREW JOHNSON. 



CIRCULAR LETTER. 

Treasury Department, June 27, 1865. 

The various rules and regulations heretofore prescribed by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, in regard to the above-named subjects, having been rendered nu- 
gatory in whole or in part by the changed condition of affairs in the southern 
Slates and Executive orders and proclamations, and the War Department 
having assumed charge of freedmen, abandoned lands, &c., under the provisions 
of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1865, the following instructions as to 
the duties of officers of the Treasury Department in the premises are prescribed, 
and will be regarded as in full force and effect immediately on the receipt thereof 
by any officer whose action is in anywise affected thereby : 

1. All restrictions on commercial intercourse in and with States and parts of 
States heretofore declared in insurrection, and on the purchase, transportation, 
and sale of the products thereof, are removed ; except as to the transportation 
thereto or therein of arms, ammunition, articles irom which ammunition is made, 
gray uniforms, and gray cloth ; and except, also, those relating to property here- 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 99 

tofore purchased by the agents or captured by or surrendered to the military 
forces of the United States. Nor will any fees or taxes be charged or collected 
except those imposed by the customs and internal revenue laws. And the su- 
pervision necessary to prevent the shipment of the prohibited articles will be 
exercised only by the regular and ordinary officers of the customs, acting under 
the revenue laws of the United States. 

2. Subordinate officers discharging duties in regard to commercial intercourse, 
under the regulations referred to, will consider their official connection with this 
department as terminating wilh the 30th instant, without further notice. 

3. Agents for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States on govern- 
ment account will close their official business, east of the Mississippi, with the 
transactions of the 13th instant ; and west of it, with the transactions of the 24th 
instant ; returning to sellers all property or money received or collected since 
those dates, respectively, and using such despatch in the premises that their con- 
nection with the department may, if possible, terminate with the 30th instant. 

4. Officers of this department charged with the duty of receiving and col- 
lecting, or having in their possession or under their control, captured, abandoned, 
or confiscable personal property, will dispose of the same, in accordance with 
regulations on the subject heretofore prescribed, at the earliest time consistent 
with the public interests, and will refrain from receiving such from military or 
naval authorities after the 30th instant. This will not be construed, however, 
as interfering with the operations of the agents noxo engaged in receiving or col- 
lecting the property recently captured by or surrendered to the forces of the 
United States, whether or not covered by or included in the records, &c., deliv- 
ered to the United States military or treasury authorities, by rebel military 
officers or cotton agents. Those so acting will continue lo discharge the duties 
thus imposed until such property is all received or satisfactorily accounted for, 
and until the amount so secured is shipped or otherwise disposed of under the 
regulations on the subject, heretofore prescribed. And they will use all the 
means at their command, with the utmost vigor, to the end that all the property 
so collected, captured, or turned over shall be secui'ed to the United States with 
the least possible cost and delay. 

After the 30th instant, the duty of receiving captured and abandoned prop- 
erty not embraced in the above exception will be discharged by the usual and 
regular officers of the customs, at the several places where tlipy may be located, 
in accordance with regulations relating to the subject ; and officers heretofore 
performing that duty will give them all the aid and information in their power 
to enable them to carry out the same. 

5. Officers of this department charged with the care or supervision of, or 
having in their possession or under their control, any abandoned or confiscable 
lands, houses, and tenem -nts, will turn them over to a duly authorized officer of 
the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, so far as they may 
be required or demanded by the same, together with all moneys, books, records, 
and papers arising from or relating to the property so turned over, taking proper 
receipts or vouchers therefor. This rule will also govern the action of all agents 
of this department connected in any way with the care of freedmen, &c., so far 
as it may be applicable. 

And all persons asking for any information in regard to the property so tui'ued 
over, or for the release of the same, or for the release of any proceeds or moneys 
arising therefrom, will be referred to the Commissioner of Refugees, Freedmen, 
and Abandoned Lands, at Washington, to whom communications on the sub- 
ject should be addressed. 

6. Officers of this department having in their possession or under their con- 
trol any moneys whatever arising from fees collected under the commercial in- 
tercourse regulations, (except those collected for the benefit of freedmen, which 
will be disposed of under section 5,) or from the sales of captured, abandoned ^ 



100 • RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

or coufiscable persoual property, will forthwith deposit the same with the near- 
est assistant treasurer, designated depositary, or deposit bank, (keeping the 
amounts from the different sources separate,) to the credit of H. A. Risley, esq., 
supervising special agent, &c., taking therefor receipts in quadruplicate — which 
receipts must show whence the sums were received — one of which will be re- 
tained by the officer so depositing, one forthwith sent to the Secretary of the 
Treasury, one to the (Jommissioner of Customs, and one to Mr. Risley, at Wash- 
ington. 

7. All officers above referred to, except proper officers of the customs, acting 
exclusively under the revenue laws, will, after they have closed their official 
business, as above directed, and sold at auction, to the highest bidder, the fur- 
niture and property remaining on hand, and accounted for the proceeds of the 
same, forthwith systematically arrange the books, records, papers, &c., of their 
late office, that they may easily be referred to and examined, pack them in se- 
cure and water-proof boxes, and forward the same, so marked as to indicate 
their contents, together with their respective resignations, addressed to the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury, Washington city. 

HUGH Mcculloch, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 



GENERAL REGULATIONS 

For tlte 2>urchasc nj" products of the insurrc-tionary States on, governjnenl account 

I. Aj^euts shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the ap- 
proval of the President, to purchase for the United States, under sj.iccial instruc- 
tions from the Secretary of the Treasury, products of States declared to be in 
insurrection, at places hereinafter designated, or that may, from time to time, be •• 
designated as markets or places of purchase. ^ 

II. The following places are hereby designated as such markets or places of 
purchase, to wit: New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Norfolk, Beaufort, N. C, 
Port Royal, and Peusacola. 

III. Before entering upon the discharge of their duty, each of the agents so 
appointed shall execute a bond, with sureties in the prescribed form, in a penal 
sum to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned for the faithful 
discharge of his duty, and that he shall not engage, directly or indirectly, in the 
purchase of products on private account, nor be, in any way, interested in the 
products purchased by him,. or the proceeds or profits arising therefrom. 

IV. The price to be paid for any of the products so to be purchased shall be 
agreed upon between the seller and the purchasing agent, but shall in no case 
exceed the market value thereof at the time and place of purchase, nor exceed 
three-fourths the market value thereof in the city of New York, according to 
the latest quotations known to the agent purchasing at the .date of the delivery 
of the products, less a sum equal to the internal revenue tax and the permit fee 
prescribed in the regulations concerning commercial intercourse dated July 29, 
1S64, and also subject to such other deductions to cover transportation, insurance, 
and other expenses, and to such arrangements for payment as may be prescribed 
in special instructions to the several purchasing agents. 

V. The proceeds of all sales made by the several agents, together with such 
funds as may be transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be deposited 
in the most convenient depository, to the credit of the " purchasing fund," to be 
disbursed as hereinafter directed. 

VI. Proper instructions shall be given whereby daily quotations and prices ■ 
current in New York shall be forwarded to the several agents, and to the col- -, 
lector or surveyor (as the case may be) of customs at the several markets or 
places of purclaase, by mail, every day, or as often as there shall be mail com- 
munication with such agents and collectors or surveyors. 

VII. The purchasing agent shall, to the extent of the funds at his command, 
and in pursuance of his instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury as to 
price and terms of payment, purchase all products offered to him of the character 
or description which by such instructions he is authorized to purchase ; but no 
liability of any character shall be authorized or assumed by any agent for or on 
account of government previous to the actual delivery of the products, other 
than a stipulation, in the form hereinafter prescribed, to purchase products owned 
or controlled by applicants, at a price to be agreed upon at the place and date 
of delivery. ■'- ' 

VIII. Wlienever any person shall make application to the purchasing agent, 
in writing, setting forth that he owns or controls products, stating the kind, 
quantity, and location thereof, or the date at which they will be delivered at 
some specified location accessible to transportation, the purchasing agent, if 
authorized by special instructions to purchase such products, shall give a certifi- 
cate that such application has been made, and request safe conduct for such 
party, with the necessary transportation, to the locations specified, and for him- 



102 . GENERAL REGULATIONS. 

self and products in transitu from the points named to such purchasing agent. 
(Sec form No. 1, appended to these regulations.) 

IX. Parties having sold and delivered products shall, upon their request, be 
furnished by the purchasing agent with a certificate of the facts, which certificate 
shall state the character and quantity of the articles purchased, the price paid 
therefoi*, the aggregate amount of payment, the place whence and the route by 
which it was transported. (See form No. 2, appended to these regulations.) 

X. All bills or invoices of purchase shall be made in triplicate, after the pro- 
ducts purchased shall have been actually delivered to the purchasing agent, their 
weight, quantity, and rating ascertained and determined by sworn weighers, 
measurers, or experts ; and such bills or invoices shall be certified thereon as to 
their correctness by such sworn weigher, measurer, or expert, and the whole, as 
to prices and other stipulations expressed therein, certified by the purchasing 
agent, together with the date of the latest New York quotations known to the 
agent at time of the purchase. 

The products, with such triplicate bills or invoices, shall then be delivered to 
the collector or surveyor of customs at the place of delivery, who, on satisfying 
himself of their correctness, and that the products correspond with the statement 
set forth in the bills or invoices, shall indorse thereon, over his own signature, 
a certificate of the facts, which certificate shall authorize payment of the bills to 
be made by such depositary or other disbursitig agent, at such time and in such 
manner as shall have been agreed upon in writing between the purchasing agent 
and seller, taking care to authorize payment at a date sufliciently remote to be 
certain the proceeds therefrom may be realized, and such bills, duly receipted, 
shall be paid by the depositary or disbursing agent named in the certificate as 
therein stipulated. One of the triplicates so paid shall be immediately trans- 
mitted to the Secretary of the Treasury by the disbursing officer, one retained 
by him, and the othertransmitted to the First Auditor, with his monthly accounts, 
for settlement. 

XI. Purchasing agents shall keep a full and accurate record of all their trans- 
actions, including the names of all persons from whom they make purchases, 
the date of the purchase, a description of the products purchased, the quantity 
thereof, specifying the number and character (whether bundles, boxes, hogsheads, 
or bales) of packages, and their weight if in pounds, or gallons if in liquids, 
&c., and their quantity, a£ ascertained and certified to by sworn experts, weighers, 
&c. A transcript of this record will be transmitted to the Secretary of the 
Treasury on the first day of each month. 

XII. Sales of products so purchased may be made weekly at public auction, 
to the highest bidder, after due notice, at Memphis and New Orleans, and other 
places hereafter designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, not exceeding in 
quantity one-fifth of the amount received during the previous week, unless in 
the opinion of the purchasing and disbursing agent and the collector or surveyor, 
as the case may be, the condition of the purchasing fund shall require larger 
sales than one-fifth; then sales of such further quantities as they may determine 
to be necessary are hereby authorized, but in no case in such amounts as undul}'- 
to affect the market. Such additional sales and the reason therefor must be 
promptly reported to the Secretary of the Treasury, 

XIII. The sales herein authorized shall be made by or uuder the direction 
or supervision of the purchasing agent, or an agent specially authorized by the 
Secretary, and all products so sold shall be delivered by the collector or surveyor 
(as the case may be) to the parties purchasing them upon the presentation to 
him of the bill of sale, certified by the agent, designating the lot, character, and 
quantity of the products sold and the price and the amount to be paid therefor, 
together with a certificate from the depositary that the proceeds of such sale 
have been duly deposited with him, and the products so sold shall be allowed 



GENERAL REGULATIONS. 103 

transportation to any desired port or place in a loyal State, free from tlie payment 
of any taxes or fees other than such as have been paid under regulation IV. 

XIV. Any person bringing products for sale to the purchasing agent, desiring 
to repurchase and transport the same to a loyal State, may give notice thereof 
at the time of making sale to the purchasing agent; and the agent may, after 
they have been rated, weighed, &c., as provided above, sell and dispose of such 
products to the party applying at prices not less than the market rates at the 
place of purchase, nor less than the last quotations from New York known to 
the purchasing agent at the date of the transaction, from which shall be deducted 
a sum equal to the reduction of purchase price which may have been made by 
the agent to cover transportation and other expenses. 

The products so sold shall not be resold, either at public or private sale, until 
after transportation to a loyal State or to a foreign port, and shall be liable to 
forfeiture for breach of this regulation. All products purchased by purchasing 
agents, the sale of which is not provided for in these regulations, shall be dis- 
posed of in such manner as may be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

XV. All products of insurrectionary States which the purchasing agent is 
authorized by his instructions to purchase, moving with or without a permit, 
shall, on arrival at a place where there is a purchasing agent, be sold and deliv- 
ered to him, except captured and abandoned property, and such as may have 
been produced within the lines of actual occupation by the military forces of 
the United States by the labor of the person transporting, or of freedmen or others 
employed and paid by him, pursuant to rules relating thereto established under 
proper authority; or such as were purchased under proper authority prior to 
July 2, 1864, and were being transported in conformity with the regulations of 
the Secretary of the Treasury. 

W. P. FESSENDEN, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 
WASHr.\GTO.\, D. C, Sejftember 24, 1864. 



Executive Mansion, September 24, 1864. 
The foregoing rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, having 
been seen and considered by me, are hereby approved. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



Form No. L 

I, A B , agcut for the purchase of products of insurrectiouary States on 

behalf of the government of the United States at , do hereby certify that 

I have agreed to purchase from C D , of , ; 

which products, it is represented, are, or will be, at , iu the county of 

, in the State of , on the day of , 186.., 

and which he stipulates shall be delivered to me, unless prevented from so doing by the 
authority of the United States. 

I therefore request safe conduct for the said C D- , and his means of trans- 
portation, and said products, from to , where the products 

so transported are to be sold and delivered to me, under the stipulation referred to above, 
and pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 

A B . 

Form No. 2. 

I, A B , agent for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States on 

behalf of the government of the United States at , do hereby certify that 

I have purchased of C D: , of , of 

at $ per , and that there has been paid him, for the same, $ , 

and that the said was transported from by way of 

A B . 



104 • GENERAL REGULATIONS!. 

EXECUTIVE ORDER RELATIVE TO THE PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS OF 
INSURRECTIONARY STATES. 

Executive Mansion, Scjjtcmber 24, 1864. 

I. Congress h;).ving autliorized the purchase for the United States of the; pro- 
duct of States declared in insurrection, and the Secretary of the Treasury having 
designated New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Peiisacola, Port Royal, Beaufort, 
N. C., and Norfolk, as places of purchase, and with my approval appointed 
agents, and made regulations under which said products may be purchased : 
Therefore, 

II. All persons, except such as may be in the civil, military, or naval service 
of the government, having in their possession any products of States declared 
in insurrection which said agents are authorized to purchase, and all persons 
owning or controlling such products therein, are authorized to convey such pro- 
ducts to either of tlie places which have been hereby, or may hereafter be, desig- 
nated as places of purchase, and such products so destined shall not be liable to 
detention, seizure, or forfeiture while in transitu or in store awaiting transporta- 
tion. 

III. Any person having the certificate of a purchasing agent, as prescribed 
by Treasury Regulation VIII, is authoi-ized to pass, with the necessary means 
of transportation, to the points named in said certificate, and to return therefrom 
with the products required for the fulfilment of the stipulations set forth in said 
certificate. 

IV. Any person having sold and delivered to a purchasing agent any pro- 
ducts of au insurrectionary State, in accordance with the regulations in relation 
thereto, and having in his possession a certificate setting forth the fact of such 
purchase and sale, the character and quantity of products, and the aggregate 
amount paid therefor, as prescribed by regulation IX, shall be permitted by 
the military authority commanding at the place of sale to purchase from any 
authorized dealer at such place, or any other place in a loyal State, merchandise 
and other articles not contraband of war, nor prohibited by the order of the 
War Department, nor coin, bullion, or foreign exchange, to an amount not ex- 
ceeding in value one-third of the aggregate value of the products sold by him, 
as certified by the agent purchasing ; and the merchandise and other articles so 
purchased may be transported by the same route and to the same place from and 
by which the products sold and delivered reached the purchasing agent, as set 
forth in the certificate ; and such merchandise and other articles shall have safe 
conduct, and shall not be subject to detention, seizure, or forfeiture while being 
transported to the places and by the route set forth in the said certificate. 

V. Generals commanding military districts and commandants of military 
posts and detachments, and officers commanding fl^ts, flotillas, and gunboats, 
will give safe conduct to persons and products, merchandise, and other articles 
duly autliorized as aforesaid, and not contraband of war, or prohibited by order 
of the AVar Department, or the orders of such generals commanding, or other 
duly authorized military or naval officer, made in pursuance thereof; and all 
persons hindering or preventing such safe conduct of persons or property will 
be deemed guilty of a military offence, and punished accordingly. 

VI. Any person transporting or attempting to transport any merchandise or 
other articles, except in pursuance of regulations of the Secretary of the Trea- 
sury dated July 29, 1864, or in pursuance of this order, or transporting or 
attempting to transport any merchandise or other articles contraband of war, 
or forbidden by any order of the War Department, will be deemed guihy of a 
military offence, and punished accordingly ; and all products of insurrectionary 
States found in transitu to any other person or place than a purchasing agent 
and a designated place of purchase shall be seized and forfeited to the United 
States, except such as may be moving to a loyal State under duly autliorized 



GENERAL REGULATIONS. 105 

permits of a proper officer of the Treasury Department, as prescribed by regu- 
lation XXXVIII, concerning "commercial intercourse," dated July 29, 1864, 
or such as may have been found abandoned, or have been captured, and are 
moving in pursuance of the act of March 12, 1863. 

VII. No military or naval officer of the United States, or pei-soa in the mili- 
tary or naval service, nor any civil officer, except such as are appointed for 
that purpose, shall engage in trade or traffic in the products of insurrectionary 
States, or furnish transportation therefor, under pain of being deemed guilty of 
unlawful trading with the enemy, and punished accordingly. 

VIII. The Secretary of War will make such general orders or regulations as 
will insure the proper observance and execution of this order ; and the Secre- 
tary of the Navy will give instructions to officers commanding fleets, flotillas, 
and gunboats in conformity therewith. 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



[General Orders No. 285.] 

War Department, 
Washington City, October 6, 1864. 

First. The attention of officers and soldiers of the army of the United States, 
whether volunteer or regular, is directed to the Executive order dated September 
24, 1864, and they will in all respects observe the same, and the commanders 
of all military departments, districts, posts, and detachments will, upon the 
receipt of this order, revoke all other orders within their respective commands 
conflicting or inconsistent therewith, and will make such orders as will insure 
strict observance of this order throughout their respective commands. 

Second. All commanders of military departments, districts, posts, and de- 
tachments will render such aid to the officers and agents of the Treasury De- 
partment in carrying out the provisions of said order, and the Treasury regu- 
lations therein referred to, as can be given without prejudice to the military 
service. 

Third. Officers of the Quartermasters' Department, upon written application 
of the duly authorized agents of the Treasury Department, or of persons 
authorized by them, may furnish transportation, by land or water, for collecting 
and forwarding to market articles of produce within the insurrectionary States 
specified within the aforesaid order, upon such reasonable terms as may be pre- 
scribed by the Quartermaster General, where the same can be done without 
prejudice to the military service, and not otherwise. The application for trans- 
portation must bo first approved by the commander of the department, dis- 
trict, post, or detachment wherein the articles are received. 

By order of the Secretary of War : 

E. D. TOWNSEND, 
Assistant Adjutant General. 



[General Order No. 42.] 

Navy Department, 

Washington, December 1, 1864. 

The attention of the commanding officers of squadrons, flotillas, and vessels 
of the ravy employed on blockade duty, or in the Mississippi river or other 
inland waters in the vicinity of the insurrectionary States, is required to the 
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106 ' GENERAL REGULATIONS. 

Executive order liereto annexed, dated September 24, 1864, and they will adopt 
such measures as may be necessary to insure the strict observance of the order 
by those under their command. 

The forms of certificates referred to in paragraphs III and IV of the Execu- 
tive order are also annexed hereto. 

GIDEON WELLES, 

Secretary of the Navy. 



Treasury Department, 

February 6, 1865. 
The port of Fernandina, in the State of Florida, is hereby designated as a 
place for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States on government ac- 
count, in accordance with the provisions of the 8th section of the act of Con- 
gress approved Julv 2, 1864. 

W. P. FESSENDEN, 

Sccretari/ of the Treasury. 

Executive Mansion, February 6, 1866. 

Approved : 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 



AMENDED HEGULATIONS 

For the purchase of products of the insurrectionary States on government account. 

Treasury Department, May 9, 1865. 

I. Agents shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the 
approval of the President, to purchase for the United States, under special 
instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury, products of States declared to 
be in insiirrection, at such places as may from time to time be designated by the 
Secretary of the Treasury as markets or places of purchase. 

Agents heretofore appointed for the places designated under previous regula- 
tions, will continue their agencies as if appointed under these regulations. 

II. Before entering upon the discharge of his duty, each of the agents so ap 
pointed shall execute a bond, with sureties iu the prescribed form, in a penal 
sum to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned for the faithful 
discharge of his duty, and that he shall not engage, directly or indirectly, in the 
purchase of jDroducts on private account, nor be in any way interested in the 
products purchased by him, or the proceeds or profits arising therefrom. 

III. The operations of purchasing agents shall be confined to the single article 
of cotton ; and they shall give public notice at the place to which they may 
be assigned that they will purchase, in accordance with these regulations, all 
cotton not captured or abandoned which may be brought to them. 

IV. To meet the requirements of the 8th section of the act of July 2, 1864, 
the agents shall receive all cotton so brought, and forthwith return to the seller 
three-fourths thereof, which portion shall be an average grade of the whole, 
according to the certificate of a sworn expert or sampler. 

V. All cotton pvirchased and resold by purchasing agents shall be exempt 
from all fees and all internal taxes. And the agent selling shall mark the saine 
" FREE," and furnish to the purchaser a bill of sale clearly and accurately de- 
scribing the character and quantity sold, and containing a certificate that it is 
exempt from taxes and fees as above, 

VI. Purchasing agents shall keep a full and accurate record of all their 
transactions, including the names of all persons from whom they make purchases, 
the date of the purchase, a description of the cotton purchased by them, and 
the quantity and quality thereof, also of the one-quarter retained by them. A 
transcript of this record will be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury on 
the first day of each month. 

VII. Sales of the cotton retained by the purchasing agents under regulation 
IV, as the diff'erence between three-fourths the m irket price and the full price 
thereof in the city of New York, may be made by such agents at such places 
and times and in such manner as may be directed in special instructions from 
the Secretary of the Treasury. Where such sales are not so authorized, the 
agents shall, without delay, ship it to New York, on the best terms possible, 
consigned, until otherwise directed, to S. Draper, cotton agent and disbursing 
officer at that place. Bills of lading in triplicate for such shipment must be 
taken, one of which shall be sent to the agent at New York, one to the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury, and one retained by the purchasing agent. 

VIII. Prior to the close of each month, and in sufficient time for the necessary 
action, the purchasing agent shall prepare and forward to the commissioner of 
customs a full estimate of the probable expenses of his office for the month next 
ensuing, the amount of which, together with any sum found due from inadequacy 
of former estimate, or loss so much as may remain unexpended from any amount 



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previously sent, will be trausmitted to said purchasiug aj^eiit. Purchasing agents 
will require receipts in triplicate for all moneys paid by them, one of which re- 
ceipts shall be forwarded to the disbursing officer, one to the First Auditor of 
the Treasury, with his accounts, and one retained by the agent. 

IX. All agents are prohibited from purchasing any product of an insurrec- 
tionary State which shall have been captured by the military or naval forces of 
the United States, or which shall have been abandoned by the lawful owner 
thereof. 

X. These regulations, which are intended to revoke and annul all others on 
the subject heretofore made, will take effect and be in force on and after May 
10, 18G5. 

HUGH McCULLOGH, 

Secretary of the Treasury. 

ExEcuTiVK Chamber, 
Washington City, May 9, 1865. 
Approved : 

ANDREW JOHNSON. 

NoTK. — All the above regulations were abrogated by the proclamatioas of the President 
of June 13 and 24, 1665. (Sec pages 17, 18, and 19.) 



